Black Voices at Rutgers · Oral History: Price, Clement A., 1991

Oral History: Price, Clement A., 1991

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Title: Oral History: Price, Clement A., 1991
Interviewee: Price, Clement A.
Birth Year: 1945
Birth Place: [birth place not recorded]
Rutgers Graduating Class: 1975
Interviewer: Cohen, Gilbert
Location of Interview: Newark, NJ
Date Created: 19 September 1991
Description: Clement A. Price was born in Washington, D.C., in 1945 and attended the D.C. public schools. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from University of Bridgeport. After a year teaching African American history at Essex County College, Price joined the faculty at Rutgers-Newark in 1969, where he was initially hired as a part-time instructor. Soon after his appointment in Newark, he enrolled in the history Ph.D. program at Rutgers-New Brunswick, which he completed in 1975. Dr. Price taught at Rutgers-Newark for 45 years and established himself as one of the university's most esteemed faculty members. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including serving as chair of President Obama's transition team for the National Endowment for the Humanities and vice chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. He has played leadership roles with many organizations in New Jersey, including the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Fund for New Jersey, the Newark Public Schools, the Newark Black Film Festival, the Newark Public Library, the Newark Education Trust, and the Save Ellis Island Foundation. Over the years, Dr. Price has published widely in African American History, Urban American History, and American Cultural Policy. He continued teaching history at Rutgers-Newark as Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor until his death in 2014.

The Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers-Newark was named in his honor.
Audio: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3C24TCK
Related Resource: Dr. Clement Price (Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance Hall of Fame); Clement Alexander Price (Wikipedia); Remembering Dr. Clement Alexander Price (Rutgers-Newark flickr photo album); Tributes to Clement A. Price (Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, Rutgers University-Newark)
Subject: Rutgers University-Newark; Rutgers University-New Brunswick; Rutgers Alumni; Rutgers Faculty; Professors; Conklin Hall; Black Organization of Students (BOS)
Collection: Rutgers-Newark in the 1960s and 1970s Oral History Collection (R-MC 024)
Repository: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries
Rights: Rutgers University owns the copyright in this work. You may make use of this resource, with proper attribution, for noncommercial educational, scholarly, or research purposes only. Please contact Rutgers University Libraries to obtain permission for other uses.
Identifier: SCUA-RNOH-Price