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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Abe Thompson
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Abe Thompson.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 51 min., 10 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
Broadcast executive and radio station manager Abraham "Abe" Thompson, Jr. was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 22, 1951. After graduating from Western Illinois University in 1974, Thompson went to work for WVON radio as a salesman. In 1980, he was named local sales manager of WGCI. By 1985, he was president and station manager. After spending two years in Detroit reviving WRIF, Thompson returned to Chicago as station manager of WVAZ in 1988. In 1991, he began doing promotions for films and international festivals, including the Cancun Jazz Festival and the 1995 Sinbad's Soul Music Festival in St. Martin. Thompson was also a successful motivational speaker. In 2000 he published a book, My Thoughts, Your Book, Our Journal, written for his son, Phoenix. In 1999, he became president of Partnership Radio, a group of radio stations in Northwest Indiana. In 2003, Thompson was ranked as one of the thirty most influential African Americans in radio.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Abe Thompson
Abe Thompson
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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