Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Woodson.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Woodson, Robert L.
• Crowe, Larry F.
• Stearns, Scott
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 41 min., 22 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Nonprofit executive and social activist Robert L. "Bob" Woodson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 8, 1937. Woodson grew up in poverty, but committed his life to the empowerment of the disenfranchised. At seventeen, he joined the Air Force and turned his life around. Woodson earned his G.E.D. while in the service, going on to study mathematics at Cheyney University. Woodson then took a job at a juvenile jail. As Woodson began to identify with the kids in the jail, he dedicated himself to helping them. He decided to go into social work, attending the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned an M.S.W. Woodson worked as a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute before becoming founder and president of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE) in 1981. For his work, Woodson received a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Foundation in 1990.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Robert Woodson
• Robert Woodson

Subject

• Woodson, Robert L. > Interviews
• Woodson, Robert L
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• Community Development Chief Executive Social Activist

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Scott Stearns.

OCLC

1003150117

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Woodson.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Playing Time

024122

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Larry Crowe, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Scott Stearns.

Event

Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2003 September 22.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Community Development Chief Executive Social Activist.

Added Author

Woodson, Robert L., interviewee.

Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.

Stearns, Scott, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.