The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with James Lowell Gibbs, Jr.

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with James Lowell Gibbs, Jr.

4/5/2006

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2006.061

Cultural anthropology professor James Lowell Gibbs, Jr. (1931 - ) was the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus at Stanford University. Gibbs was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 4/5/2006, in Stanford, California. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 55m 40s

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Gibbs, James Lowell

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Cultural anthropologist James Lowell Gibbs, Jr., was born on June 13, 1931, in Syracuse, New York to Huldah Hortense Dabney, a school teacher, and James Lowell Gibbs, Sr., executive director of a community center. Gibbs was born prematurely when his mother's appendix burst during the seventh month of her pregnancy. Gibbs can trace his family ancestry back to 1834 to a paternal great-great grandfather who was born in Florence, South Carolina. Gibbs grew up in Ithaca, New York, where he attended H...