- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 23 min., 11 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Civil rights activist and lawyer W. George Allen was born on March 3, 1936 in Sanford, Florida. Allen attended and graduated from Crooms High School in 1964. In 1958, he earned his B.S. degree in political science and minored in economics; and in 1962, Allen earned his J.D. degree from the University of Florida Law School. He was the first African American to earn a degree at the University of Florida. While in law school, Allen organized lunch counter sit-ins in and around Gainesville, Florida. After he passed the bar exam in 1963, Allen and his family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was hired at the law firm of Orr & Kaplan, but after six months there, Allen left to found his own law practice, which has been in business for decades. Allen specialized in trial work, probate, personal injury, insurance defense and wrongful death cases.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with W. George Allen
- W. George Allen
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208776
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with W. George Allen.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
022311
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Tracey Lewis, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Fort Lauderdale, Florida 2006 February 17.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Civil Rights Activist Lawyer.
- Added Author
Allen, W. George, 1936- interviewee.
Lewis, Tracey, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.