The HistoryMakers video oral history with June Cross.
Filmmaker and author June Cross was born in 1954, in New York. She earned her B.A. degree from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in 1975. Her mother was Norma Greve, a white actress and her father was Jimmy Cross, a black entertainer, but Cross was raised by an African American couple in Atlant...
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| Language: | English |
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The HistoryMakers,
[2016]
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| Summary: | Filmmaker and author June Cross was born in 1954, in New York. She earned her B.A. degree from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in 1975. Her mother was Norma Greve, a white actress and her father was Jimmy Cross, a black entertainer, but Cross was raised by an African American couple in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She attended Radcliffe College and received her B.A. degree from there in 1975. After graduating, she worked at the Boston Globe, CBS News, the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, and Frontline, covering various stories. In 1983, she won an Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story about the U.S. invasion of Grenada. While working with Frontline, she produced "Secret Daughter: A Mixed Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away," as a documentary and a book, about her traumatic childhood. She taught at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (12 video files (5 hr., 55 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Playing Time: | 05:55:12 |
| Production Credits: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
| Access: | Access to electronic resources restricted to Simmons University students, faculty and staff. |