The HistoryMakers video oral history with Simeon Booker.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 8 min., 58 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2007.223 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Booker, Simeon, 1918-2017, interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Simeon Booker |
| Portion of title | Simeon Booker |
| Abstract | Magazine and newspaper reporter Simeon Saunders Booker, Jr., was born August 27, 1918, in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1942, after receiving his B.A. degree in English from Virginia Union University, Booker worked at the Baltimore's Afro American Newspaper. In 1945, he began working for the Call and Post in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1950, Booker was awarded the Nieman Fellowship in journalism from Harvard University. He became the Washington Post's first full-time black reporter in 1951. Booker made history with unflinching coverage of the Emmett Till tragedy in 1955. In 1961, Booker rode with the Congress on Racial Equality Freedom Riders through the South. He was Washington bureau chief for Johnson Publishing for fifty-three years, covering every presidential election after Eisenhower's re-election and traveling abroad extensively. In 1982, Booker received the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award. In 2013, he published Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement. |
| Credits | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
| Performer | Paul Brock, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2007 August 1. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2007.223 HistoryMakers |