- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (2 hr., 1 min., 37 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Lawyer and social activist Allie Latimer was born in 1929 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania and raised in Alabama. She graduated from Alabama State Lab High School and earned her B.S. degree from Hampton Institute. In 1953, she received her J.D. degree from Howard University Law School. She received a LL.M degree from Catholic University and degrees from Howard University School of Divinity. In 1968, Latimer organized and founded Federally Employed Women (FEW). She joined the General Services Administration (GSA) in the early 1970s as an assistant general counsel. In 1976, she left to serve as assistant general counsel for NASA. In 1977, she returned to GSA and became the first woman and African American to serve as general counsel of a major federal agency. From 1987 to 1995, she served as special counsel for ethics and civil rights at GSA. In 2009, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Allie B. Latimer
- Allie B. Latimer
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
- OCLC
- 1000518746
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Allie B. Latimer.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
020137
- 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, Edgar Carey Lane.
- Event
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2004 May 20.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Social Activist Government Lawyer.
- Added Author
Latimer, Allie B., 1929- interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.