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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Adelaide Sanford
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Adelaide Sanford.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 15 min., 29 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
Educator Adelaide L. Sanford was born on November 27, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York. Sanford taught grade school in Brooklyn for twenty-five years before becoming vice chancellor of the State University of New York Board of Regents. Sanford earned her B.Ed. degree from Brooklyn College in 1947 and her M.Ed. degree from Wellesley College in 1950. She later earned a Ph.D. in education from Fordham University, and becoming principal at Crispus Attucks School in Brooklyn. As principal, Sanford worked to help restore the reputation of Brooklyn's Crispus Attucks School as an outstanding inner-city educational platform. After her unanimous election to the Board of Regents in 1986, she worked to reduce the performance gap between districts by improving the educational standards of low-performing schools. While serving as a regent, Sanford also taught education courses at Baruch College and Fordham University. She received many commendations for her service to education.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Adelaide Sanford
Adelaide Sanford
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performers
Cathy Sandler, 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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