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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 25 min., 20 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
Nonprofit executive and educator Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich was born in Niagara Falls, New York, on June 24, 1933. Scruggs-Leftwich earned her B.A. from North Carolina Central University, her M.A. degree from the University of Minnesota and her Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She worked as deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Scruggs-Leftwich held professorships at Howard University, the State University of New York, the University of Pennsylvania and George Washington University, in addition to serving as deputy mayor of Philadelphia, housing commissioner for the state of New York, and deputy assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. She was the executive director and chief operating officer of the Black Leadership Forum, and served as a policy adviser. She co-owned three banking corporations in New York, consulted on municipal finance, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Germany.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich
Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich
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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