Oprah (70 page)

ARTICLES:
Ken Harrell, “My 2½-Year Romance with Oprah,”
Globe,
Oct. 26, 1993; Honie Stevens, “From Rags to Riches,”
Saga,
May 2002; Academy of Achievement, “Oprah Winfrey Interview,” Feb. 21, 1991,
www.achievement.org
; Pat Embry, “Oprah Winfrey’s Father Says Her Success Is No Surprise,”
Nashville Banner,
Jan. 20, 1986; Sandy Smith, “Oprah Reunites with First Love,”
Tennessean
, Feb. 12, 1992; “Oprah Heads for Forensic Nationals,” East Nashville High
East Eagle,
Apr. 1970; Gary Ballard, “Oprah Winfrey,”
Drama-Logue,
Mar. 20–26, 1986; “Mayor Evers to Receive Award,”
New York Amsterdam News,
June 20, 1970; Louis Martin, “White Elks Show: How to Inspire Racial Violence,”
Chicago Daily Defender,
Aug. 1, 1970; Marilyn Johnson, “Oprah Between the Covers,”
Life,
Sept. 1997; Leslie Rubenstein, “Oprah!”
McCall’s,
Aug. 1987; Joan Barthel, “Here Comes Oprah,”
Ms.,
Aug. 1986; “Miss Wool Contest,” East Nashville High
East Eagle,
Dec. 1970; Lucia Monet, “Estes Park Conference on Youth,”
Christian Science Monitor,
Apr. 16, 1971; “The Voice of Youth,”
New York Times,
Apr. 23, 1971; John Mathews, “Game Plan for a Youth Conference,”
Nation
, May 17, 1971; “Discontent of the Straights,”
Time,
May 3, 1971; “Snow Country,”
Newsweek,
May 3, 1971; “U.S. Youth Chooses Radical Path,”
Christian Science Monitor,
Apr. 26, 1971; Nan Robertson, “White House Youth Conference Proves to be Anti-Establishment,”
New York Times,
Apr. 22, 1971; R. C. Smith, “She Once Trashed Her Apartment to Make a Point,”
TV Guide,
Aug. 30, 1986.

TV/DVDS:
The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection
(DVD set);
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
“Is There Life After High School?” aired 1994 (viewed at East Nashville High Alumni Association, East Alumni House, Nashville).

INTERVIEWS:
Andrea Haynes, Sept. 1, 2008; Luvenia Harrison Butler, Apr. 22, 2008, and Apr. 24, 2008; Larry Carpenter, Apr. 21, 2008, and correspondence with Larry Carpenter, July 29, 2008, and July 30, 2009; Cynthia Connor Shelton, Aug. 26, 2008; Gary Holt, Apr. 23, 2008, and correspondence with Gary Holt, Aug. 22, 2008; correspondence with Jackie Oates, National Forensic League, Feb. 11, 2008, and Aug. 1, 2008; correspondence with Jeannine Kunz, National Elks Foundation, Mar. 19, 2008; correspondence with Sylvia Watts Blann, July 30, 2008; Sheryl Harris Atkinson, June 25, 2008; Nancy Solinski, Apr. 25, 2008; correspondence with Patsy R. Cline, Apr. 12, 2008, and May 7, 2008.

F
OUR

RECORDS:
East Nashville High
Grey Eagle,
1971;
Tennessee State University Bulletin,
1971–1973;
Fisk University Catalog
, 1971–1972; transcript, “Oprah” segment,
60 Minutes,
CBS, Dec. 14, 1986; Oprah Gail Winfrey application for Miss Black Nashville of the Miss Black America Beauty Pageant.

BOOKS:
Vince Staten,
Do Bald Men Get Half-Price Haircuts?
(Touchstone, 2001); Robert Waldron,
Oprah!
(St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Merrell Noden,
People Profiles: Oprah Winfrey
(Time Life, 1999).

ARTICLES:
Transcript,
Larry King Live,
May 1, 2007,
www.transcripts.cnn.com
; Richard Severo, “Kenneth Clark, Who Fought Segregation, Dies,”
New York Times,
May 2, 2005; Sugar Rautbord, “Oprah Winfrey,”
Interview,
Mar. 1986; Alan Richman, “Oprah,”
People Weekly,
Jan. 12, 1987; transcript, “
A New Earth
Online Class, Chapter 7,”
www.oprah.com
, Apr. 14, 2008; J. Zamgba Browne, “Angela, ‘Free at Last,’ ”
New York Amsterdam News,
June 10, 1972; Mary Ann Bendel, “Oprah Winfrey,”
Ladies’ Home Journal,
Mar. 1988; Oprah Winfrey, “Oprah Talks to Charlize Theron,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Nov. 2005; Joanna Powell, “Oprah’s Awakening,”
Good Housekeeping,
Dec. 1998; Leslie Marshall, “The Intentional Oprah,”
InStyle,
Nov. 1998; Lee Siegel, “Thank You for Sharing,”
New Republic,
June 5 and 12, 2006; Arline Ambrose, “Martin Luther King Murdered Twice,” Tennessee State University
Meter,
May 14, 1973; Academy of Achievement, “Oprah Winfrey Interview,” Feb. 21, 1991,
www.achievement.org
; “Oprah
Returns to Mississippi Birth Place,”
www.foxnews.com
, Sept. 5, 2006; Francine Knowles, “Becoming Oprah,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 29, 2006; “Transcript of Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement Address,”
Stanford Report,
June 15, 2008; Judy Markey, “Brassy, Sassy Oprah Winfrey,”
Cosmopolitan,
Sept. 1986; Patricia Towle and Roger Capettini, “Oprah Stole Beauty Contest Crown,”
National Enquirer,
Oct 20, 1992; “Miss Black Nashville TSU Student,”
Tennessean
, Mar. 12, 1972; “Oprah Faked a Robbery,”
Globe,
Mar. 8, 2004; Luther Young, “She’s Found Success by Just Being Oprah,”
Baltimore Sun,
Jan. 27, 1985; “Miss Black America Rejects Title,”
New York Times,
Aug. 28, 1972; “Beauty Refuses ‘America’ Crown,”
Chicago Daily Defender,
Aug. 28, 1972; Ken Beck, “50 Years of Channel 5,”
Tennessean
, Aug. 4, 2004; Ruth Ann Leach, “Outrageous Racism Still Alive in Every State,”
Nashville Banner,
July 25, 1995; “The Price of Fame,”
Celebrity,
Oct. 1987; John C. Shelton, “Ex-Local TV Anchor Enjoys Her Success,”
Nashville Banner,
Dec. 26, 1985; Patricia King, “Move Over, Phil Donahue—Here Comes Oprah,”
Family Circle,
Oct. 21, 1986; Richard Sanders and Barbara Kleban Mills, “TV Host Oprah Winfrey Boots Up for Star-Making Role,”
People Weekly,
Dec. 16, 1985; Jamie Foster Brown, “Everything Negroes Ever Wanted to Ask Oprah, Part 2,”
Sister 2 Sister,
Dec. 1997; Ken Beck, “Nashville TV Icon Chris Clark Signs Off the Air,”
Tennessean
, May 1, 2007; Margaret D. Pagan, “Oprah,”
Metropolitan
, Oct. 1979; Eirik Knutzen, “Close to the Hart,”
Toronto Star,
Aug, 22, 1989; Bill Zwecker, “It’s True, Prince Will Take a Bride,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Feb. 1, 1996; MacKenzie Carpenter, “Former WPXI News Director Knew Young Oprah Was a Keeper,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
Sept. 8, 2006; Eve Zibart, “Baltimore Position Only ‘Stopover’ for Oprah Winfrey,”
Tennessean
, May 4, 1976.

TV/DVDS:
The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection
(DVD set); “Oprah Winfrey: Heart of the Matter,” A&E
Biography
special, aired Jan. 16, 2000; Oprah video tribute to Chris Clark at the time of his retirement, WTVF-TV, aired May 23, 2007 (viewed at
www.newschannel5.com
May 25, 2007);
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
“Oprah Anchors the 5 O’Clock News: Celebs Go Back to Their First Jobs,” aired Nov. 3, 2009.

INTERVIEWS:
Luvenia Harrison Butler, Apr. 22, 2008, and Apr. 24, 2008; Sheryl Harris Atkinson, June 25, 2008; Katie Rawls, Apr. 21, 2008; Barbara Wright, July 2, 2008; confidential source, Oct. 30, 2007; confidential source, May 24, 2007; Bonnie Goldstein, June 2007; Gordon El Greco Brown, Apr. 24, 2008; Patrice Patton-Price, Sept. 17, 2008; Chris Clark, Apr. 23, 2008; Joseph Davis, Apr. 25, 2008; Patty Outlaw, Apr. 21, 2008, and correspondence with Patty Outlaw, Apr. 27, 2008; Jimmy Norton, May 9, 2008; Joyce Daniel Hill, Apr. 25, 2008; Elaine Garnick, June 30, 2008; confidential source, Jan. 23, 2007; Janet Wassom, Apr. 24, 2008.

F
IVE

RECORDS:
Transcript, “Oprah” segment,
60 Minutes,
CBS, Dec. 14, 1986; transcript, Oprah Winfrey speech to American Women’s Economic Development Corporation conference, New York City, Feb. 25, 1989.

BOOKS:
Countee Cullen, “Incident,” from
Color
(Harper and Brothers, 1925); Bob Greene and Oprah Winfrey,
Make the Connection
(Hyperion, 1996); Robert Waldron,
Oprah!
(St. Martin’s Press, 1987); Michael Olesker,
Tonight at Six
(Apprentice House,
2008); Merrell Noden,
People Profiles: Oprah Winfrey
(Time Life, 1999); Norman King,
Everybody Loves Oprah
(Bill Adler Books, 1987); Katrina Bell McDonald,
Embracing Sisterhood
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2007).

ARTICLES:
“Chaos in Charm City,”
Time,
July 22, 1974; Mark Kamine, “Walk This Way,”
New York Times Book Review,
Dec. 16, 2007; Laura Charles, “ ‘Defector’ Oprah Gets Sweet Send-Off,”
Baltimore Sun,
Dec. 14, 1983; “Off-Camera: The Living’s Convenient in Cross Keys,”
Baltimore News-American,
June 1, 1980; Rod Gibson, “Secrets of the Mortician Oprah Was Dying to Wed,”
Globe,
Feb. 16, 1999; Peter Williams, “Oprah and Her Men,”
Star,
July 6, 1993; Peter Williams, “The Untold Story of Oprah’s Heartbreak,”
Star,
Dec. 13, 1988; Patricia King, “Move Over, Phil Donahue—Here Comes Oprah,”
Family Circle,
Oct. 21, 1986; Bill Carter, “Baltimore’s First Hour News,”
Baltimore Sun,
Aug. 13, 1976; Bill Carter, “Look for Hour-Long Baltimore News Programs,”
Baltimore Sun,
May 14, 1976; Bill Carter, (title unknown),
Baltimore Sun,
June 18, 1976; Bill Carter, (title unknown),
Baltimore Sun,
May 11, 1976; Larry Carson, “Area TV Series Was City Hall Brainchild,” Baltimore
Evening Sun,
Sept. 1, 1976; Grant Pick, “Oprah!”
Republic,
Jan. 1986; Oprah Winfrey, “This Month’s Mission,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Dec. 2003; Bill Carter, “The WJZ Weeknight News Is Looking Better and Al Sanders Is Why,”
Baltimore Sun,
Apr. 27, 1977; Academy of Achievement, “Oprah Winfrey Interview,” Feb. 21, 1991,
www.achievement.org
; “Transcript of Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement Address,”
Stanford Report,
June 15, 2008; “Oprah Winfrey’s Commencement Address, Wellesley College, May 30, 1997,”
www.wellesley.edu
; Bill Carter, “Hour News Is Smooth and Professional, But Why Is Tom Boyd So Cute?”
Baltimore Sun,
Sept. 9, 1976; “Baltimore TV Reporter Dies at 58,”
Washington Post,
Jan. 1, 1988; Alan Richman, “Oprah,”
People Weekly,
Jan. 12, 1987; Oprah Winfrey, “It’s Not Over Till It’s Over,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Jan. 2004; Lisa Kogan, “Oprah and Gayle Uncensored,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Aug. 2006; Bill Carter, “WJZ Announces News Shake-Up,”
Baltimore Sun,
Apr. 2, 1977; Eve Zibart, “Baltimore Position Only ‘Stopover’ for Oprah Winfrey,”
Tennessean
, May 4, 1976; Jon Anderson, “Wingin’ It with Ch. 7’s Oprah Winfrey,”
Chicago Tribune,
Mar. 13, 1984; Margaret D. Pagan, “Oprah,”
Metropolitan,
Oct. 1979; transcript, “
A New Earth
Online Class, Chapter 9,”
www.oprah.com
, Apr. 28, 2008; Jeffrey Strickler, “Winfrey, Having Achieved Quite a Bit, Expects ‘Great Things from Myself,’ ” Minneapolis
StarTribune,
Apr. 18, 1986; Elizabeth Colt, “Oprah Winfrey Goes National,”
Boston Globe,
Sept. 2, 1986; Linda Robinson, “Over 1000 Turn Out for Turner Funeral,”
Baltimore Sun,
Jan. 4, 1988; Lyn Tornabene, “Here’s Oprah,”
Woman’s Day,
Oct. 1, 1986; Ian Woodward, “The World of Oprah,”
OK!,
June 29, 1994; Fred Hines, “News Man Reports on S. African Horrors,”
Afro-American,
Sept. 10, 1977; LaTonya Taylor, “The Church of O,”
Christianity Today,
Apr. 1, 2002; Ann Kolson, “Sassy Oprah Has Her Say,”
Providence Journal,
Feb. 6, 2007; Cheryl Lavin, “It’s All Going Oprah’s Way,”
Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 19, 1985; “Carter Foundation Presents Oprah Winfrey in a One-Woman Show,”
Afro-American,
May 28, 1983; Stephanie Chetas, “One Woman Show,” Goucher College
Goucher
, Feb. 11, 1982; Kathleen Fury, “Oprah! Why She’s Got America Talking,”
TV Guide,
Mar. 5, 1988; Pat Gregor, “Oprah Hides Lover,”
Star,
July 18, 2000; Judy Markey, “Brassy, Sassy Oprah Winfrey,”
Cosmopolitan,
Sept. 1986; Joe Mullins, “Touching Last Interview with Oprah’s AIDS-Stricken Brother,”
National Enquirer,
Jan. 16, 1990; Jamie Foster Brown, “Everything Negroes Ever Wanted to Ask Oprah,”
Sister 2 Sister,
Nov. 1997; Gerri Kobren, “Co-Hosts Love Their Work,”
Baltimore Sun,
Sept. 17, 1978; Oprah Winfrey, “This Is the Body You’ve Been Given—Love What You’ve Got,”
O, The Oprah Magazine,
Aug. 2002; Francine Knowles, “Becoming Oprah,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Sept. 29, 2006; “Oprah: The Story of My Life,”
National Enquirer,
May 14, 1996; Leslie Rubenstein, “Oprah! Thriving on Faith,”
McCall’s,
Aug. 1987; Bill Carter, “Winfrey’s Show Goes On,”
Baltimore Sun,
Aug. 19, 1986; Bill Carter, “Sher, Winfrey to Host 13’s Talk Show,”
Baltimore Sun,
Aug. 2, 1978; Bill Carter, “Channel 13 Getting Over Its Morning Jitters,”
Baltimore Sun,
Aug. 23, 1978.

INTERVIEWS:
Barbara L. Hamm, July 23, 2007, and Aug. 2, 2007; Dr. William F. Baker, Mar. 12, 2008, and Oct. 28, 2008; Bob Turk, Mar. 3, 2008, and correspondence with Bob Turk, Mar. 4, 2008; Gary Elion, May 27, 2007; Hilda Ford, Nov. 6, 2008; Frank Miller, June 11, 2008; Cynthia Todd, Sept. 21, 2007; correspondence with Bernice Johnson Reagon, Feb. 10, 2007; Jane McClary, Nov. 6, 2009; Katrina Bell McDonald, Jan. 6, 2008; correspondence with Peter Gethers, Nov. 11, 2008; Dr. Frank M. Reid, Sept. 21, 2007; Adam Shapiro, June 16, 2008; Larry Singer, June 19, 2007.

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IX

RECORDS:
Documents in the case of
Donna P. Watts v. Timothy C. Watts,
case no. 88CSP133, Circuit Court for Baltimore County, Maryland State Archives; transcript, “Oprah” segment,
60 Minutes,
CBS, Dec. 14, 1986.