The HistoryMakers video oral history with William Smith.

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 59 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color.

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Videographer, Scott Stearns.

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Educator and senior administrator William L. Smith was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 3, 1929. Smith developed a strong sense of community growing up during the Great Depression. He received a presidential scholarship to Wiley College, where he graduated a year early with honors in 1949. His graduate work at Boston University was interrupted in the fall of 1950, when Smith enlisted in the U.S. Army after the outbreak of the Korean War. He helped integrate General Douglas MacArthur's famed honor guard and was decorated several times for his battlefield service. After the war, Smith worked in the public schools of Cleveland before earning his Ph.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1970 and joining the U.S. Department of Education. A respected voice on issues of teacher education, administration and multiculturalism, Smith represented his country at several international conferences on education. Smith passed away on February 29, 2008, at age 79.

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February 04, 2021

Videographer, Scott Stearns.

Larry Crowe, interviewer.