The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Thomas C. Holt

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Thomas C. Holt

5/27/2010; 5/1/2018

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2010.027

African american history professor Thomas C. Holt (1942 - ) was the James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago. Holt was most known for his work on race, labor and politics in post-emancipation societies. Holt was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 5/27/2010 and 5/1/2018, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 12; Total Run Time: 05h 57m 18s

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Holt, Thomas C. (Thomas Cleveland), 1942-

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Historian and scholar Thomas C. Holt was born on November 30, 1942 in Virginia. Holt attended and graduated from segregated schools in southside Virginia. He went to work for the SNCC during the Civil Rights Movement in his hometown, Danville, and in Cambridge, Maryland in 1965. He graduated from Howard University with his B.A. degree in 1965 and his M.A. degree 1966. Following that, Holt worked for a federal antipoverty programs trying to change the living and working conditions of migrant and ...