Library of Congress Receives Collection of Oral Histories from Prominent African Americans
The National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP) has donated more than 200 original videotaped interviews from prominent African Americans to the Library of Congress. These oral histories, housed in the American Folklife Center, are the seed of what will be an open collection that will grow in the coming years.

From the announcement:

The National Visionary Leadership Project Collection of African American Oral Histories includes interviews with Maya Angelou, Edward Brooke, Elizabeth Catlett, Ray Charles, Shirley Chisholm, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Katherine Dunham, Myrlie Evers-Williams, John Hope Franklin, Dorothy Height, Quincy Jones, B.B. King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lowery, Toni Morrison, Gordon Parks, Sidney Poitier, Charles Rangel, Percy Sutton, Douglas Wilder and Andrew Young. Transcripts of the interviews, along with photographs of the interviewees, are included in the donation.

Direct to The National Visionary Leadership
NVLP inspires leadership development in younger generations by recording, preserving and distributing through various media the wisdom of African American elders who have shaped American history. Extensive excerpts from virtually all of the interviews continue to be made available by NVLP web site.

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