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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Waverly Person
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Waverly Person.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 15 min., 42 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
Geophysicist and seismologist Waverly Person was born in Blackridge, Virginia on May 1, 1926. Attending the high school of historically black Saint Paul's College in Lawrenceville, Virginia, he was drafted into Army as a high school senior in 1944. Serving in the Pacific during World War II and in the Korean War, he achieved the rank of first sergeant. After his B.S. degree in mathematics from Saint Paul's College, Person became interested in geophysics, working as a seismic monitoring technician. He studied at American University and George Washington University, becoming qualified as a geophysicist in 1965. Despite facing racism, he became a federal geophysicist in 1971. Person worked his way up to become the first African American chief scientist of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Service in 1977 until his 2006 retirement. Person was active with the Seismological Society of America, Boulder County Crimestoppers, and Flatirons Kiwanis Club.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Waverly Person
Waverly Person
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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