Oral history interview with Malvin R. Goode, May 7, 1985
- Title
- Oral history interview with Malvin R. Goode, May 7, 1985 / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by James Briggs Murray.
- Published by
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 1 videodisc (62 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Malvin Goode discusses his family and his life up to 1962, when he was hired by ABC. Memories of grandparents and family history in Va.; family religious affiliations; family stories; parents' background; family land; race relations in Va.; experience attending white schools; discrimination at U. of Pittsburgh; difficulty with professor; employment at steel mill; finances during the Depression; employment opportunities after college education; work as porter in Pittsburgh clothing store and his attempts to counteract racism; financial inequality with white colleagues; confrontation of store owner over racist policies; the dangers of racism to the U.S.; employment by juvenile court and then by YMCA as director of boys' activities; why he left "Y"; how he worked with boys; hiring by Pittsburgh Courier, duties; beginning of broadcasting career; description of his radio program "The Courier Speaks"; story of how he was hired by ABC.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subject
- African Americans in radio broadcasting > Interviews
- United States > Race relations
- Nonfiction films
- Filmed interviews
- African American journalists > Interviews
- Goode, Mal, 1908-1995 > Interviews
- Goode, Mal, 1908-1995 > Anecdotes
- African Americans in television broadcasting > Interviews
- Race discrimination > United States
- Oral histories
- Genre/Form
- Nonfiction films.
- Interviews.
- Oral histories.
- Call number
- Sc Visual DVD-1366
- Credits (note)
- Interviewer, James Briggs Murray.
- Terms of use (note)
- Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
- Biography (note)
- Malvin Goode is the first African American network correspondent on television.
- Author
- Goode, Mal, 1908-1995, interviewee.
- Title
- Oral history interview with Malvin R. Goode, May 7, 1985 / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by James Briggs Murray.
- Publisher
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.
- Country of producing entity
- United States.
- Type of content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of medium
- video
- Type of carrier
- videodisc
- Digital file characteristics
- video file DVD
- Credits
- Interviewer, James Briggs Murray.
- Event
- Recorded May 7, 1985 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
- Terms of use
- Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
- Biography
- Malvin Goode is the first African American network correspondent on television.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Murray, James Briggs, interviewer.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Research call number
- Sc Visual DVD-1366