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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Andrew Heidelberg
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Andrew Heidelberg.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (15 video files (7 hr., 1 min., 31 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Banker and civic leader Andrew Heidelberg was born on November 6, 1943 in Norfolk, Virginia. A member of the "Norfolk 17," in 1957, a federal judge ordered Norfolk schools to desegregate. Heidelberg was one of seventeen students who began integration in Virginia by attending Norview High School in 1959. In 1961, Heidelberg made the football team and was the first African American to play varsity football at a previously all-white public school in in the South. In 1967, he entered the banking industry in Providence, Rhode Island and later served as Assistant Treasurer and Chief Deputy Treasurer for the City of Hampton, Virginia in 2003. Heidelberg graduated from Norfolk State University with his B.S. degree in interdisciplinary studies in 2001. He published his story in 2006, The Norfolk 17: A Personal Narrative on Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia in 1958-1962. Heidelberg passed away on July 6, 2015 at age 71.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Andrew Heidelberg
Andrew Heidelberg
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performers
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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