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The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Barbara Lett Simmons.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Barbara Lett Simmons.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 54 min., 6 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Government administrator Barbara Lett Simmons was born on June 4, 1927 in Battlecreek, Michigan. Graduating from Battlecreek High School in 1945, she earned her B.A. degree from Western Michigan University in sociology and education. Simmons taught in the public schools in Detroit, Michigan from 1949 to 1962, and Montgomery County, Maryland from 1962 to 1965. Simmons was Education Coordinator for the Washington D.C. Poverty Program from 1967 until 1968, when she joined the Department of Education, where she remained until 1972. After leaving the Department of Education, she formed a staff development and training consulting firm. Simmons served on the D.C. Board of Education from 1973 until 1986. She created a cable television and radio program entitled Educationally Speaking in 1977. As an act of civil disobedience, she refused to cast her Electoral College vote in 2000, in protest of D.C.'s "colonial status". Simmons passed away December 22, 2012, at age 85.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Barbara Lett Simmons
- The Honorable Barbara Lett Simmons
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1000518707
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Barbara Lett Simmons.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 025406
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
- Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2004 September 28.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Education Administrator.
- Added Author
- Simmons, Barbara Lett, 1927-2012, interviewee.Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.Stearns, Scott, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.