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The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Lillian Burke.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Lillian Burke.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 44 min., 21 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Judge Lillian Walker Burke was born in Thomaston, Georgia in 1915 and grew up in Pennsylvania. She received her B.S. degree in education from Ohio State University in 1947; her law degree from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law in 1951. While pursuing her law degree, Burke worked as a teacher in Cleveland. After graduating from law school, she served three years as an Ohio assistant attorney general, specializing in workmen's compensation. She was later appointed to the Ohio Industrial Commission by Governor James Rhodes, and served in that capacity for three years. She became the first African American woman to sit on the bench in the State of Ohio with her appointment to the Cleveland Municipal Court in January 1969. She was elected to that office in November 1969, and she served until her retirement in 1987. The Honorable Lillian Burke passed away on March 27, 2012 at age 97.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Lillian Burke
- The Honorable Lillian Burke
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1000518760
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Lillian Burke.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 024421
- 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 Cleveland, Ohio 2004 June 17.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Municipal Court Judge.
- Added Author
- Burke, Lillian, 1915-2012, interviewee.Williams, Regennia N., interviewer.Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.