Click here to see our On Line Lectures C. R. Gibbs author, educator, freelance writer, lecturer and exhibitor of historical artifacts. His many accomplishments include: video scripts on Black History for the D.C. Public Schools Educational Media Center television script for an historical program on WETA and several scripts for WHUR-FM, conducted research on Black Civil War units for the Sons of Union Veterans Organization, served as assistant technical advisor to the Frances Thompson Company on a film entitled "American Years" consultant to the D.C. Public School System, Georgetown University, and the Smithsonian Institution

C.R. Gibbs is also a D.C. Community Humanities Council Scholar. He wrote, researched, and narrated Sketches In Color, a 13 part companion series to the PBS series "The Civil War" for WHMMTV, Howard University TV station.

 Mr. Gibbs received the 1999 Middle States Council Award from the Middle States Council for the Social Studies for long,distinguished,and inspiring work in enhancing the community's understanding of and appreciation for history as a tool of social change,information,and empowerment.

His articles have appeared in newspapers across the nation.

Publications

  • Negro History Bulletin
  • American Visions
  • The Washington Post
  • The Washington Times
  • Dollars and Sense
  • The Baltimore Evening Sun
  • Sepia Magazine and several military publications. 
  • The Afro-American Inventor


    • Books by C.R. Gibbs

  • Friends of Frederick Douglass, a children's book
  • Black Explorers
  • Black Inventors: from Africa to America
  • Black Copper, & Bright: The District of Columbia's Black Civil War Regiment:
  • co-authored Black Georgetown Remembered, with Dr. Kathleen Lesko and Dr. Valerie Babb


    • C.R. Gibbs' research is cited in the official history of the United States Department of Commerce, From Lighthouse to Laserbeams.

    Speaker and Lecturer

  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library
  • Frederick Douglass Memorial Home
  • Howard University, Washington D.C.
  • Northern Virginia Community College
  • University of Maryland
  • Towson State University
  • Loyola University
  • American University
  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  • U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
  • Ft. Benjamin Harrison
  • National Archives and other public and private schools throughout the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia
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