Research Catalog
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]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- 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
- 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:
- 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.