The HistoryMakers video oral history with Chalmers Archer, Jr.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (8 video files (4 hr., 2 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2012.147
Subjects

Other author/creatorArcher, Chalmers, 1928- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Chalmers Archer, Jr.
Portion of title Chalmers Archer, Jr.
Abstract Combat medical technician, author and professor Chalmers Archer, Jr. was born on April 21, 1928 in Tchula, Mississippi. He served as master sergeant technician in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. In 1952, Archer joined the newly formed U.S. Army Special Forces; and in 1957, his unit was one of the first to see combat in Vietnam. He later served in Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Taiwan and Panama. Ending his army service in 1967, Archer returned to school. He received his B.S. degree from Tuskegee Institute and his Ph.D. degree in counseling and psychology from Auburn University in 1979. Archer became a professor of counseling and psychology at Northern Virginia Community College in 1983. He is the author of two memoirs, Growing up Black in Rural Mississippi, published in 1991, and Green Berets in the Vanguard, published in 2001. Archer passed away on February 24, 2014 at the age of eighty-five.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Manassas, Virginia 2012 July 12.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2012.147 HistoryMakers