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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Owen Nichols.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Owen Nichols.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Nichols, Owen D.
  • Hamilton, Racine Tucker
  • Hickey, Matthew
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 7 min., 46 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Academic administrator Owen Douglas Nichols was born on April 8, 1929 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He graduated from Washington High School in 1948. He served in the U.S. Army from 1950 until 1953, and he earned his B.S. degree in chemistry from Shaw University in 1955. Nichols received his M.S. degree in physical chemistry from Howard University in 1958. From 1958 until 1959, Nichols worked as associate professor of chemistry at South Carolina State College, and he was a research chemist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory from 1959 until 1962. He worked as a physical science analyst for the Defense Documentation Center until 1966, when he joined the National Air Pollution Control Administration. In 1969, Nichols returned to Howard University where he served in various positions for nearly twenty years. He retired in 1988 as vice president for administration and secretary of the Board of Trustees.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Owen Nichols
  • Owen Nichols
Subject
  • Nichols, Owen D. > Interviews
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Academic Administrator
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
OCLC
1000518736
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Owen Nichols.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
020746
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, Matthew Hickey.
Event
Recorded Silver Spring, Maryland 2004 August 23.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Academic Administrator.
Added Author
Nichols, Owen D., interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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