The HistoryMakers video oral history with James D. Montgomery.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (12 video files (5 hr., 38 min., 20 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2002.163 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Montgomery, James D., 1932- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Richardson, Julieanna L., 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 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. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer | Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 June 27. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 July 16. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 February 25. |
| 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 | A2002.163 HistoryMakers |