Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Ronald L. Ellis.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Ellis, Ronald L., 1950-
• Cole, Harriette
• Stearns, Scott
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 26 min., 54 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Judge Ronald L. Ellis was born on July 4, 1950 in Lafourche Crossing, Louisiana, and raised in New York City. After earning his B.Ch.E. degree from Manhattan College in 1972, he attended New York University School of Law as a Root-Tilden-Kern public interest scholar. Drawn to its civil rights mission, he joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. in 1976. From 1984 to 1990, Ellis served as the Fund's Fair Employment Program director, before heading its Poverty & Justice Program. In 1993, Ellis was sworn in as a magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Ellis taught at New York University School of Law, New York Law School and Columbia School of Law. He coauthored the chapter "Achieving Race and Gender Fairness in the Courtroom" in The Judge's Book, and belongs to the Metropolitan Black Bar Association.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Ronald L. Ellis
• The Honorable Ronald L. Ellis

Subject

• Ellis, Ronald L., 1950- > Interviews
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• United States Magistrate Judge

Genre/Form

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

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Scott Stearns.

OCLC

1003150900

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Ronald L. Ellis.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Playing Time

032654

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, Scott Stearns.

Event

Recorded New York, New York 2016 October 27.

Recorded New York, New York 2016 November 11.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

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

Indexed Term

United States Magistrate Judge.

Added Author

Ellis, Ronald L., 1950- interviewee.

Cole, Harriette, interviewer.

Stearns, Scott, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.