The HistoryMakers video oral history with Don West.

Photographer and photojournalist Don West was born on November 15, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts. In the 1960s and 1970s, West taught transcendental meditation in Detroit, Michigan and played bass guitar professionally. In 1982, he became a staff photographer for the Bay State Banner in Boston and b...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: West, Don, 1937- (Interviewee)
Crowe, Larry F. (Interviewer)
Hickey, Matthew (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Subjects:
West, Don, > 1937- > Interviews.
West, Don.
African Americans > Interviews.
African Americans.
Photographer > Photojournalist.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (The HistoryMakers)
Physical Description:1 online resource (6 video files (3 hr., 15 min., 1 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Don West
Don West
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
Photographer and photojournalist Don West was born on November 15, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts. In the 1960s and 1970s, West taught transcendental meditation in Detroit, Michigan and played bass guitar professionally. In 1982, he became a staff photographer for the Bay State Banner in Boston and began documenting the movements, struggles and successes of Boston's minority and underrepresented communities, eventually serving as press photographer for United Press International. In 1983, West was the official photographer for Melvin King's Rainbow Coalition mayoral campaign; and for Nelson Mandela's visit to Boston in 1990. Boston's Museum of African American History exhibited his work in 1997 in Portraits of Purpose. The Urban League commissioned an updated version of the exhibit, Portraits of Purpose, in 2012. West co-authored Portraits of Purpose: A Tribute to Leadership in 2014.
Call Number:E185.97
Playing Time:03:15:01
Credits:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Participant or Performer:
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Event Details:
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2016 October 22.
Source of Description:
Vendor-supplied metadata.