- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (9 video files (3 hr., 58 min., 22 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Newspaper reporter Lena Marguerite Williams was born on March 2, 1950 in Washington, D.C. At Howard University, Williams graduated cum laude with her B.A. degree in English in 1972 and spent that summer as an intern-reporter for The Washington Post. In 1973, she earned her M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and became associate editor of Black Sports magazine. She joined The New York Times in March of 1974. In August of 1976, she became a reporter trainee on the metropolitan desk. In 1977, Williams garnered the first of several Publishers Awards. In 1986, she was transferred to Washington, D.C. to establish a civil rights beat. Williams eventually returned to sports reporting, retiring from The New York Times in 2005. She was the author of It's The Little Things: The Everyday Interactions That Get Under The Skin of Whites and Blacks, published by Harcourt in 2000.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Lena Williams
- Lena Williams
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1003150485
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lena Williams.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
035822
- 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, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2007 February 8.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Newspaper Reporter.
- Added Author
Williams, Lena, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.