The HistoryMakers video oral history with Brenda Payton Jones.

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 8 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color.

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Videographer, Scott Stearns.

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Newspaper columnist Brenda Payton Jones was born Brenda Williams on August 24, 1952 in Omaha, Nebraska. Payton's family moved to Chicago, Illinois when she was three. Growing up in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, she attended the University of Chicago Laboratory School for elementary and high school. By her senior year, Payton was a National Merit Scholar semi-finalist. Payton received her B.A. degree in history from Pomona College in 1973, and her M.A. degree in journalism from Boston University in 1974. For twenty-six years, Payton was a columnist at the Oakland Tribune. She covered local and national political and social issues ranging from the United States War on Terror to Hurricane Katrina to the impact of racial discrimination on health. She was a contributor to KQED-FM's Perspective series for twenty years. In March 2006, CityFlight Newsmagazine honored Payton as one of the Ten Most Influential African Americans in the Bay Area.

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February 04, 2021

Videographer, Scott Stearns.

Loretta Henry, interviewer.