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Thomas Cripps was born on 17 September, 1932 in Baltimore, Maryland, is an American film historian (1932–2018). Discover Thomas Cripps's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Occupation Historian
Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 17 September 1932
Birthday 17 September
Birthplace Baltimore, Maryland
Date of death 17 September, 2018
Died Place Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality United States

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1932

Thomas R. Cripps (September 17, 1932 – September 17, 2018) was an emeritus professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore who wrote and lectured about the history of African American cinema.

Cripps was born on September 17, 1932, in Baltimore, Maryland to Benjamin and Marian Cripps.

He attended the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and was part of the school's JV and Varsity soccer and baseball teams.

1933

Cripps was married to Alma Taliaferro (1933–1994) and then to Lynn Traut.

He had five children, two of whom preceded him in death.

1951

Cripps pitched for the baseball team and joined them for the 1951 state championship, after his graduation in 1950.

His skill brought him to the attention of a scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1954

Cripps went on to attend Towson University, where he graduated in 1954 with a bachelor's degree in secondary education, followed by a Master's and PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park in the cultural history of the United States.

For his dissertation Cripps wrote "The Lily White Republicans: The Party, the Negro, and the South in the age of Booker T. Washington".

Cripps took several teaching positions after graduating from Towson.

While teaching at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Cripps and his wife received warning that the Ku Klux Klan planned on attacking him, as they were opposed to him teaching people of the Lumbee Nation.

He went on to teach at Morgan State University was a visiting professor at Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Delaware, and was an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland in College Park and Johns Hopkins University.

During his time at Morgan State University Cripps coordinated the University Television Project, assisting in the production of approximately 40 programs on African-American life and culture and was a consultant to Turner Classic Movies.

1962

Prior to this he was awarded the 1962 George Hammond history prize for a paper he wrote on his studies of the critical black reaction to the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith.

1977

His research on the history of African American cinema has been viewed as groundbreaking and poet Thomas Sayers Ellis penned and dedicated a poem to Cripps, which he named after Cripps's 1977 book Slow Fade to Black.

1980

Cripps was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center from 1980 to 1981, focusing on the topic "A Social History of Blacks in American Film, 1942 to the Present".

1982

In 1982 Cripps received the Charles Thompson Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the National Archives of the United States.

After his death his papers and research materials were deposited in the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

1996

He was appointed Professor Emeritus in 1996 at Morgan State University, a position he held until his death in 2018.

Cripps provided academic and scholarly research to multiple documentaries and was the writer for the documentary film Black Shadows on the Silver Screen.

2018

Cripps died on September 17, 2018, at the age of 86 from complications from Alzheimer's disease.