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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Adjoa Aiyetoro
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Adjoa Aiyetoro.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 24 min., 5 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
Civil rights lawyer and civic activist Adjoa Aiyetoro earned an A.B. degree in 1967 from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and an M.S.W. degree in 1969 from George Warren Brown School of Social Work. In 1978, she graduated cum laude from St. Louis University School of Law. Aiyetoro served as staff attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice beginning in 1978 and then joined the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation as an attorney in 1982. As director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers beginning in 1993, she strengthened both its advocacy efforts and fiscal position. She has also served as chief legal consultant to the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America and co-chairperson of the Reparations Coordinating Committee. Aiyetoro taught law at American University and served on the law faculty of University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Adjoa Aiyetoro
Adjoa Aiyetoro
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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