The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Daphne Maxwell Reid

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Daphne Maxwell Reid

7/21/2004; 10/12/2004

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2004.103

Television actress Daphne Maxwell Reid (1948 - ) was the first black homecoming queen at Northwestern University, as well as the first African American pictured on the cover of Glamour magazine. Among her television rolls, Reid has made guest appearances on The A-Team, Simon & Simon, and played the role of Aunt Viv on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, along with co-founding New Millennium Studios in Virginia. Reid was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 7/21/2004 and 10/12/2004, in Petersburg, Virginia. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 20; Total Run Time: 09h 27m 33s

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Reid, Daphne Maxwell, 1948-

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Daphne Maxwell Reid was born Daphne Etta Maxwell on July 13, 1948 in New York City, the child of Rosalee and Green Maxwell. She has two brothers, Rodney McAllister Maxwell, born November 24, 1946, and Kenneth Maxwell, born October 23, 1955. Her father worked as a clerk at a soda fountain (what Maxwell Reid describes as a “sodajerk”) in a drugstore and her mother was a homemaker, seamstress, and activist. Maxwell Reid describes her family life growing up in the Amsterdam Houses, an Upper West Sid...