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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Alma Powell
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Alma Powell.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (17 video files (8 hr., 39 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Fiction writer and civic leader Alma Vivian Johnson Powell was born on October 27, 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama. She graduated from Parker High School in 1954, where her father was principal. She attended Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee at the age of sixteen. In 1957, Powell received her B.A. degree from Fisk University and worked as an audiologist between 1958 and 1962 for the Boston Guild for the Hard of Hearing. She met her future husband, General Colin Powell in 1962. They married the same year in Powell's hometown of Birmingham. Powell is currently the co-chair of America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth and is the author of several children's books including America's Promise and My Little Wagon. Powell served as vice chair of the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and chair of the Pew Center for Civic Change. Her three children include former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Michael Powell.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Alma Powell
Alma Powell
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performers
Julieanna L. Richardson, 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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