Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ann Cooper.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ann Cooper.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 5 min., 49 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Civic activist Ann Louise Nixon Cooper was born on January 9, 1902 in Shelbyville, Tennessee. In 1922, Ann Nixon married Albert Berry Cooper, a young dentist. The couple moved to Atlanta, Georgia, raising four children and becoming part of the city's African American community including W.E.B. Du Bois, Lugenia Burns Hope and John Hope, Benjamin E. Mays and E. Franklin Frazier. Cooper served on the board of directors of the Gate City Nursery Association. She was a founder of a Girls Club in Atlanta. In 2002, she was awarded the Annie L. McPheeters Medallion for community service from the Auburn Avenue Research Library. President-elect Barack Obama mentioned her in his November 2008 election speech as representative of change in America over the past century. Cooper passed away December 21, 2009 at age 107.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Ann Cooper
- Ann Cooper
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Videographer, Adrian Jackson.
- OCLC
- 1003150236
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ann Cooper.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 050549
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Clarissa Myrick-Harris, interviewer.Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.Videographer, Adrian Jackson.
- Event
- Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2004 March 24.Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 December 8.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Civic Activist.
- Added Author
- Cooper, Ann Nixon, 1902-2009, interviewee.Myrick-Harris, Clarissa, interviewer.Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.Stearns, Scott, director of photography.Jackson, Adrian, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.