Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lynn Norment.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lynn Norment.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 25 min., 8 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Magazine editor and reporter Lynn Aurelia Norment was born on February 14, 1952 in Bolivar, Tennessee. Norment attended Bolivar's all-black segregated school in 1958 before transferring to Bolivar High School in 1969. She graduated in 1970 with an academic scholarship to attend Memphis State University where she graduated magna cum laude with a degree in journalism in 1973. From 1973 to 1977, Norment was a general assignment reporter, religion editor and investigative writer for the Memphis-based newspaper, The Commercial Appeal. In 1977, Norment was hired as a freelance reporter by Ebony magazine. She wrote and edited "Sisterspeak" and "Ebony Advisor". She was recognized by Memphis State University as one of its "Outstanding Journalism Alumni" in 1991. Norment served as vice president of National Association of Black Journalists and was a board member of Habilitative Systems, Inc. Norment resided in Chicago and was a member of the editorial board of Ebony magazine.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Lynn Norment
- Lynn Norment
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1000519110
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lynn Norment.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 052508
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Cheryl Butler, interviewer.Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
- Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2008 February 6.Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2012 January 20.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Magazine Editor.
- Added Author
- Norment, Lynn, 1952- interviewee.Butler, Cheryl B. (Cheryl Blanche), 1967- interviewer.Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.Stearns, Scott, director of photography.Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.