The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Beny J. Primm.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 50 min., 6 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2001.060
Subjects

Other author/creatorPrimm, Beny J., interviewee.
Other author/creatorRichardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Other author/creatorBieschke, Paul, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Dr. Beny J. Primm
Portion of title Dr. Beny J. Primm
Abstract Healthcare chief executive and physician Dr. Beny Primm was born on May 28, 1928 in Williamson, West Virginia. Graduating from a Bronx high school, he entered Lincoln University on a basketball scholarship, but graduated from West Virginia State University. In 1959, he received his M.D. degree from the University of Geneva, in Switzerland. In 1969, he helped found New York's Addiction Research Treatment Corporation and continued for many years as its executive director. A.R.T.C. is one of the largest minority nonprofit community-based substance abuse treatment programs in the country. Since 1983, Primm was president of the Urban Resource Institute, an umbrella organization supporting community-based initiatives and social service programs for battered women, the disabled, substance abusers, HIV, and AIDS victims. As one of the world's foremost experts on HIV and AIDS, he served on the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic, Primm passed away on October 16, 2015, at the age of 87.
CreditsVideographer, Paul Bieschke.
Performer Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2001 March 7.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2001.060 HistoryMakers

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