The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Pearl Cleage

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Pearl Cleage

9/23/2004

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2004.177

Essayist, fiction writer, and playwright Pearl Cleage (1948 - ) has written three novels, including, 'What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day,' which was an Oprah's Book Club selection and a New York Times bestseller. Cleage has been involved in the Pan-Africanist Movement, the Civil Rights Movement and Feminist Movement. She has also been a pioneer in grassroots and community theater. Her father, Albert B. Cleage Jr., was the founder of the Shrine of the Black Madonna. Cleage was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 9/23/2004, in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 19m 30s

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Cleage, Pearl

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Writer, playwright, poet, essayist, and journalist Pearl Michelle Cleage was born on December 7, 1948 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Cleage is the youngest daughter of Doris Graham and Albert B. Cleage Jr., the founder of the Shrine of the Black Madonna. After graduating from the Detroit public schools in 1966, Cleage enrolled at Howard University, where she studied playwriting. In 1969, she moved to Atlanta and enrolled at Spelman College, married Michael Lomax and became a mother. She graduate...