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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Walter Bailey, Jr
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Walter Bailey, Jr.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 8 min., 31 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
County commissioner and lawyer Walter Bailey was born on August 21, 1940 in Memphis, Tennessee. He graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and went on to attend Southern University, where he became involved in the Civil Rights Movement. He received his J.D. degree from the Southern University Law Center and founded Walter Bailey law firm. Bailey has been involved in several important civil rights cases, including the desegregation of Shelby County public schools and the legal defense of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. In 1971, Bailey was elected to the Shelby County Commission, serving until 2006. He fought to rename parks that had been named after members of the Confederacy and was elected chairman of the commission twice. In 1985, Bailey was lead counsel on the Supreme Court case Tennessee vs. Garner. In 2010, Bailey ran unopposed for the Shelby County Commission.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Walter Bailey, Jr.
Walter Bailey, Jr.
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
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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