The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Beny J. Primm.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016] |
| Description | 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 50 min., 6 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2001.060 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Primm, Beny J., interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Bieschke, Paul, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (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. |
| Credits | Videographer, Paul Bieschke. |
| Performer | Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded New York, New York 2001 March 7. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2001.060 HistoryMakers |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |