The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin
- Sound
- digital
- Digital
- video file
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 5 min., 45 sec.)) : sound, color
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Creators/Contributors
- Contributor
- Sprinkle-Hamlin, Sylvia, 1945- interviewee.
- Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
- Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
- HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- Library director and theater executive Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin was born on April 25, 1945 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She received her B.S. degree in education from Winston-Salem State University and her M.S. degree in library science from Clark Atlanta University. Sprinkle-Hamlin worked for a series of libraries and educational institutes including The Free Library of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Public Schools before joining the Forsyth County Library System. Sprinkle-Hamlin served as assistant library director, extension division and associate library director before becoming the library director in 2000. She also worked extensively with her husband, Larry Leon Hamlin who founded the North Carolina Black Repertory Company in 1979 and The National Black Theatre Festival in 1989. In 2007, Hamlin passed away and Sprinkle-Hamlin carried on her husband's work becoming executive producer for the National Black Theatre Festival and president of the board of directors for the North Carolina Black Repertory Company.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2016
- Title variation
- History Makers video oral history with Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin
- Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin
- Production credits
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Participant
- Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Event
- Recorded Winston-Salem, North Carolina 2012 February 23.
