The HistoryMakers video oral history with Simeon Booker.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 8 min., 58 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2007.223
Subjects

Other author/creatorBooker, Simeon, 1918-2017, interviewee.
Other author/creatorBrock, Paul, 1932- 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 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.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Paul Brock, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Washington, District of Columbia 2007 August 1.
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 numberA2007.223 HistoryMakers