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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Monica Pearson
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Monica Pearson.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 6 min., 1 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
Journalist Monica Kaufman Pearson was born in Louisville, Kentucky on October 20, 1947. Like her mother, Hattie Wallace Jones Edmondson, Pearson attended Catholic schools during her formative and high school years. After earning her B.S. degree in English at the University of Louisville, she worked at Brown Forman Distiller in public relations, and as an anchor and reporter for WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. As the first African American and the first female to anchor a daily evening newscast in Atlanta at WSB-TV in 1975, she led a distinguished career in journalism as the anchor of Channel 2 Action News at five, six and eleven o'clock. She has received several awards, including over twenty-eight Emmy Awards and first place for her documentary, Hot Flash: The Truth About Menopause from the Atlanta Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Retiring from television in 2012, she hosted the Monica Pearson Show on FM radio.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Monica Pearson
Monica Pearson
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performers
Evelyn Pounds, 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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