Marion Stokes
Marion Stokes | |
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Stokes as a young woman | |
| Born | Marion Marguerite Butler November 25, 1929 Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | December 14, 2012 (aged 83) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Television producer, archivist |
| Spouse | John Stokes Jr. |
Marion Marguerite Stokes (née Butler; November 25, 1929 – December 14, 2012) was an American access television producer, businesswoman, investor, civil rights demonstrator, activist, librarian, and archivist, especially known for hoarding and archiving hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012, at which time she had been operating nine properties and three storage units. According to the Los Angeles Review of Books review of the 2019 documentary film Recorder, Stokes's massive project of recording the 24-hour news cycle "makes a compelling case for the significance of guerrilla archiving."