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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leatrice Branch Madison.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leatrice Branch Madison.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Madison, Leatrice Branch, 1922-2012
  • Williams, Regennia N.
  • Hickey, Matthew
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 58 min., 42 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Civic leader and educator Leatrice Branch Madison was born September 5, 1922 in Washington, D.C. She attended segregated public schools of Washington, D.C., graduating from Dunbar Senior High in 1939. She earned her B.S. degree from Miner Teachers College and her M.A. degree in guidance and personnel from the University of Chicago. She worked as assistant librarian at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, taught in public schools of Washington, D.C. and Cleveland, Ohio and became a full-time community volunteer in 1960. She served on boards of numerous educational and human services organizations, including United Way Services and the Federation for Community Planning. She was a founder and one of the original board members for HARAMBEE: Services to Black Families, an agency designed to provide parenting skills to teenage parents and to recruit permanent adoptive homes for black children. Madison passed away on March 30, 2012 at age 89.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Leatrice Branch Madison
  • Leatrice Branch Madison
Subject
  • Madison, Leatrice Branch, 1922-2012 > Interviews
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Community Activist
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
OCLC
1000518757
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leatrice Branch Madison.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
015842
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Regennia Williams, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Event
Recorded Shaker Heights, Ohio 2004 June 14.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Community Activist.
Added Author
Madison, Leatrice Branch, 1922-2012, interviewee.
Williams, Regennia N., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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