- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 2 min., 13 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Journalist George White was born on December 3, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan. He received a scholarship to attend Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, where he graduated with honors and his B.S. degree in journalism and history in 1975. He went on to obtain his M.A. degree in African history in 1981, also from Michigan State University. He worked for a variety of media outlets, including the Minneapolis Tribune, the Detroit Bureau of U.S. News & World Report and the Detroit Free Press, until 1988, when White worked as a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where he would remain until 1999. While at the Los Angeles Times, White received numerous accolades, including two Pulitzers, for his work covering the L.A. riots, the Northridge, California Earthquake, and sweatshop slavery in El Monte, California. White was assistant director of the Center for Communications and Community.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with George White
- George White
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1003150409
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with George White.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
040213
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Paul Brock, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Los Angeles, California 2006 March 28.
Recorded Los Angeles, California 2006 April 1.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Newspaper Reporter.
- Added Author
White, George (George Gregory), interviewee.
Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.