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- Birth namePearl Johnson
- Pearl Bowser was born on June 25, 1931 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA. She was a director, known for Namibia: Independence Now! (1985), Wild Women Don't Have the Blues (1989) and American Experience (1987). She was married to LeRoy Bowser. She died on September 14, 2023 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseLeRoy Bowser(1955 - March 12, 1986) (his death, 2 children)
- Received a scholarship to attend CUNY-Brooklyn College but dropped out due to her disappointment with the quality of the teaching.
- In 2012 she gifted her library of films to the Smithsonian Institution's Center for African American Media Arts.
- Founder of African Diaspora Images, a collection of visual and oral histories that documents the history of African-American filmmaking.
- Began her career at CBS as a Nielsen rating analyzer.
- In the 1980s she received a grant from the Ford Foundation to travel around the United States and "collect oral histories from individuals in Oscar Micheaux's orbit, loosely following the route he would have traveled decades earlier".
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