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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Wendell Campbell
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Wendell Campbell.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 2 min., 17 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Wendell Campbell was born on April 27, 1927, in East Chicago, Indiana. He received his B.A. in architecture and city planning at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1957. He served in the U. S. Army. In 1966, he became CEO of his own architecture firm, Wendell Campbell Associates, since renamed Campbell Tiu Campbell. Campbell was a founder and the first president of the National Organization of Minority Architects, founded in 1971. Campbell was dedicated to improving the quality of affordable housing in metropolitan centers. He hoped to accomplish this goal through the design of "smart homes", housing that brought twenty-first-century technology to meet the varied needs and challenges facing urban families. Campbell served on various boards of directors and was affiliated with numerous professional and civic organizations. He married June Crusor Campbell in 1954, with whom he raised two daughters. Wendell Campbell passed away on July 16, 2008 at age 81.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Wendell Campbell
Wendell Campbell
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performers
Adele Hodge, 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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