The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Leon DeCosta Dash

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Leon DeCosta Dash

7/13/2008

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2008.081

Journalism professor and newspaper reporter Leon DeCosta Dash (1944 - ) won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for his Washington Post article on a woman's experiences of poverty and crime in Washington, D.C. He was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a founder of the National Association of Black Journalists. Dash was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 7/13/2008, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 18; Total Run Time: 08h 44m 12s

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Dash, Leon

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Leon DeCosta Dash Jr. was born March 16, 1944 in New Bedford, Massachusetts and grew up in New York City's Harlem and the Bronx. Dash is a 1968 graduate of Howard University with a BA in history.  He was a visiting professor of  political science at University of California-San Diego in 1978. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 1996.  Dash was one of 44 journalists who founded the National Association of Black Journalis...