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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Valerie Richardson Jackson
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Valerie Richardson Jackson.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 56 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Civic leader Valerie Richardson Jackson was born on April 3, 1949 in Richmond, Virginia. Jackson integrated the high school she attended in Richmond and majored in business management at Virginia Commonwealth University. She earned her M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She hosted Atlanta Georgia's Public Radio Station WABE's Between the Lines. The former first lady of Atlanta is the widow of the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. The two were married in 1977. During her twelve years as first lady of Atlanta, Jackson served as special advisor to the Mayor's Office of Economic Development helping bring the 1988 Democratic National Convention and 1996 Olympic Games to Atlanta. She was active on numerous civic boards and organizations including the Maynard Jackson Youth Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, Leadership Atlanta and the Alliance for a New Humanity.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Valerie Richardson Jackson
Valerie Richardson Jackson
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
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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