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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Ada Cooper.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Ada Cooper.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Cooper, Ada, 1960-
  • Cole, Harriette
  • Hickey, Matthew
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 22 min., 27 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Lawyer and dentist Ada Cooper was born on October 19, 1960, in New York City. She earned her B.A. degree in political science from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1982; and her J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1985. Cooper began her career as a litigator with the firm of Chicago at Jenner & Block in Chicago. She also worked in the litigation section of the Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue firm in New York City. She returned to Jenner and Block in Chicago in 1989, making partner at in 1992. While building her legal career, she began taking dentistry classes at Loyola University in Chicago. She returned to New York City and continued night classes at New York University and Hunter College, while working for her father's practice. Cooper completed her D.D.S. degree at New York University College of Dentistry, and took over her father's practice when he died.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Dr. Ada Cooper
  • Dr. Ada Cooper
Subject
  • Cooper, Ada, 1960- > Interviews
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Dentist Lawyer
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
OCLC
1003150836
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Ada Cooper.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
022227
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Event
Recorded Brooklyn, New York 2016 September 23.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Dentist Lawyer.
Added Author
Cooper, Ada, 1960- interviewee.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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