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The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Charles Morrow, III.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Charles Morrow, III.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Morrow, Charles, III, 1956-
  • Hodge, Adele
  • Bieschke, Paul
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 38 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
State representative Charles Gay Morrow III was born on July 21, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. Morrow attended De La Salle High School and was an honor student despite suffering from a speech impediment. In 1974, he entered the Illinois Institute of Technology as one of only sixty-seven African American students. Upon graduation, Peoples Gas and the Coca-Cola Company hired Morrow where he worked for eighteen years. Morrow then joined the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago, making him a viable political candidate. Morrow was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1986 from the 26th District. Since then, Morrow acted as Chairman of the Appropriations-Public Safety Committee, Co-Chair of the Legislative Printing Unit and the Vice-Chairman of the Public Utilities Committee. On 1993, Charles Morrow married Sherri Harris. Morrow was also a participant in the National Conference of Black Legislators.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Charles Morrow, III
  • The Honorable Charles Morrow, III
Subject
  • Morrow, Charles, III, 1956- > Interviews
  • Morrow, Charlie
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • State Representative
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
OCLC
1000518509
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Charles Morrow, III.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
013812
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Adele Hodge, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2000 July 21.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
State Representative.
Added Author
Morrow, Charles, III, 1956- interviewee.
Hodge, Adele, interviewer.
Bieschke, Paul, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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