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Additional authors

1. Prestwidge, K. J.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Dr. Mary Elizabeth Carnegie talks about her education and career in nursing administration and journalism. Latest position as editor-in-chief of Nursing Research Journal; childhood and early education; enrollment in nursing program at Lincoln Hospital in New York; work as nurse at VA hospital at Tuskegee; schooling at West Virginia State College; faculty job at Medical College of Virginia; segregation in nursing education and administration at that time; changes from white to black administrators of black schools; work as acting dean of nursing program at Hampton Institute; work as dean of nursing program at Florida A & M College; activities with Delta Sigma Theta and as member of Women's Africa Committee of the African American Institute and visits to Africa; the fight to integrate the American Nurses' Association and her election to the ANA board; responsibilities as editor with American Journal of Nursing Company; reasons for writing "The Path We Tread, Blacks in Nursing 1854-1984" and difficulties getting it published; honors, writings and lecturing; message to youth.

Alternative title

1. Oral history interview with Mary Elizabeth Carnegie

Subject

1. African Americans in medicine
2. Race discrimination > United States
3. African American nurses > Interviews
4. Black films and programs
5. Nurses > United States > Biography
6. Segregation in education > United States
7. Nursing school administrators > United States > Biography
8. Oral histories
9. African Americans > Segregation
10. Interviews
11. Nurses > Study and teaching > United States
12. Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Oral histories.
2. Interviews.
3. Black films and programs.

Call number

1. Sc DVD-1271

Note

1. Interviewer, K. J. Prestwidge.

Event (note)

1. Interview conducted April 21, 1987, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Biography (note)

1. Dr. Mary Elizabeth Carnegie was a distinguished educator and author in the field of nursing, known for breaking down racial barriers and preserving the history of African American nurses.

Author

1. Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth, 1916-2008, interviewee.

Title

1. Oral history interview with Dr. Mary Elizabeth Carnegie.

Imprint

1. New York, N.Y. : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1987.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

Digital file characteristics

1. video file DVD

Event

1. Interview conducted April 21, 1987, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Biography

1. Dr. Mary Elizabeth Carnegie was a distinguished educator and author in the field of nursing, known for breaking down racial barriers and preserving the history of African American nurses.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Prestwidge, K. J., interviewer.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Research call number

1. Sc DVD-1271
2. Sc Visual VRA-930 VHS
3. Sc Visual VRB-358 U-matic