Cripps, Thomas

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Name (Latin)
Cripps, Thomas
Name (Arabic)
كريبس، توماس
Date of birth
1932-09-17
Date of death
2018-09-17
Field of activity
African Americans--History
Motion pictures--History
Occupation
Film historians
Historians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 11396434
Wikidata: Q104833961
Library of congress: n 88116726
Sources of Information
  • Baltimore sun WWW site, viewed Sept. 27, 2018(in obituary dated Sept. 24, 2018: Dr. Thomas Cripps, a historian of African-American cinema and a retired Morgan State University professor, died on his 86th birthday, Sept. 17, at Symphony Manor [Baltimore, Md.]; longtime Bolton Street [Baltimore] resident; born in Baltimore; obtained a bachelor's degree at Towson University and a master's degree and doctorate at the University of Maryland College Park; wrote his dissertation on "The Lily White Republicans: The Party, the Negro, and the South in the Age of Booker T. Washington"; after joining the faculty of Morgan State University, Dr. Cripps became interested in the history of African-Americans in film)
  • Prabook, via WWW, viewed Sept. 27, 2018(Thomas Robert Cripps; American history professor, writer; born on September 17, 1932 in Baltimore; bachelor of Science in Education, Towson State Teachers College, 1954; master of Arts in History, University Maryland, 1957; doctor of Philosophy in History and Literature, University Maryland, 1967)
  • Black shadows on a silver screen [VR] 1986, c1975:credits (Thomas Cripps)
  • LC data base, 4/20/88(hdg.: Cripps, Thomas)