The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sandra Hughes.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 42 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2014.181 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Hughes, Sandra, 1946- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Sandra Hughes |
| Portion of title | Sandra Hughes |
| Abstract | TV journalist Sandra Hughes was born on October 18, 1946 in Durham, North Carolina. She earned her diploma from Notre Dame High School in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 1964 before earning her B.S. degree in English education from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 1969. Hughes was hired as a general assignment reporter at WFMY-TV in Greensboro in 1972, and was the first female African American talk show host in the Piedmont region with Sandra and Friends in 1974. She was also the first African American woman in the Southeast to host PM Magazine in 1978, before co-hosting the Good Morning Show in 1985. That same year, she began serving as manager of WFMY-TV's community affairs department. In 1990, she began anchoring the evening news segment for WFMY-TV before retiring in 2010. Hughes became an adjunct professor of journalism at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in 2011. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer | Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Greensboro, North Carolina 2014 August 13. |
| 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 | A2014.181 HistoryMakers |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |