The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.

12/20/2004; 2/2/2005

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2004.267

Nonprofit chief executive Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. (1948 - ) had the distinction in 1993 of becoming the youngest person at the time to have served as executive director and CEO of the NAACP. In 1995, Chavis was appointed National Director of the Million Man March, and later was named East Coast Regional Minister of the Nation of Islam. In 2001, along with Russell Simmons, Chavis co-founded the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network. Chavis was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/20/2004 and 2/2/2005, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 9; Total Run Time: 04h 24m 30s

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Chavis, Ben, 1948-

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Benjamin Franklin Chavis, Jr, was born on January 22, 1948, in Oxford, North Carolina. Chavis's parents were educators who taught at a school for African American orphans. Chavis's activism was in his bloodline; his grandfather, John Chavis, the first black graduate from Princeton University, set up an underground school for African Americans who were forbidden to learn to read and write. Chavis became active in civil rights at the young age of thirteen when he attempted to integrate the all whi...