The HistoryMakers video oral history with James D. Montgomery.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (12 video files (5 hr., 38 min., 20 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2002.163
Subjects

Other author/creatorMontgomery, James D., 1932- interviewee.
Other author/creatorRichardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with James D. Montgomery
Portion of title James D. Montgomery
Abstract Civil rights lawyer James Montgomery was born on February 17, 1932 in Louise, Mississippi. In 1949, Montgomery graduated from Wendell Phillips High School in Chicago. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Illinois and enrolled in the university's College of Law to earn his J.D. degree in 1956. Montgomery worked in the U.S. Prosecutor's Office in 1958 before going on to found James D. Montgomery and Associates. In 1983, Montgomery was appointed corporation counsel for the City of Chicago under Mayor Harold Washington. He was the first and only African American to hold that position. In 2000, Montgomery became a managing partner in the law firm of Cochran, Cherry, Givens, Smith and Montgomery, working with lawyer Johnnie L. Cochran. Montgomery was honored with the Edward H. Wright Award, Earl Burrus Dickerson Award and National Bar Association's Hall of Fame Award.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 June 27.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 July 16.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 February 25.
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 numberA2002.163 HistoryMakers