The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

4/25/2013

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2013.007

African american history professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (1945 - ) served as the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies and chair of the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Higginbotham was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 4/25/2013, in Boston, Massachusetts. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 02m 04s

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Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 1945-....

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African American history professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham was born in Washington, D.C. in 1945. Her father, Dr. Albert Neal Dow Brooks, was the secretary-treasurer for the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History and editor of the organization'sNegro History Bulletin; her mother, Alma Elaine Campbell, a high school history teacher who later served as the supervisor for history in the Washington, D.C. public school system. Higginbotham received her B.A. degree in history fr...