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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Willie Leftwich
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Willie Leftwich.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 29 min., 17 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
Aerospace engineer and lawyer Willie L. Leftwich was born on June 28, 1937 in Washington, D.C. to Maude Leftwich, a government employee, and Willie L. Leftwich, a railroad worker. He earned an electrical engineering degree from Howard University and his J.D. and LL.D law degrees from George Washington University. Leftwich worked as an engineer on government aerospace projects for NASA before beginning his legal career in 1968 as a patent attorney for the Federal Aviation Administration. He spent a year as vice president and general counsel of Technical Media Systems. He became a founding partner of the commercial law firm Hudson Leftwich & Davenport in 1970. From 1971 to 1973 he taught at Washington-area law schools. In 1985, he was founding partner of Leftwich & Douglas where he worked until retiring in December 1996. Leftwich became a private investor and was a life member of the NAACP and the American Bar Association.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Willie Leftwich
Willie Leftwich
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performers
Julieanna L. Richardson, 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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