The HistoryMakers video oral history with Allie B. Latimer.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (4 video files (2 hr., 1 min., 37 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2004.055 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Latimer, Allie B., 1929- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Allie B. Latimer |
| Portion of title | Allie B. Latimer |
| Abstract | Lawyer and social activist Allie Latimer was born in 1929 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania and raised in Alabama. She graduated from Alabama State Lab High School and earned her B.S. degree from Hampton Institute. In 1953, she received her J.D. degree from Howard University Law School. She received a LL.M degree from Catholic University and degrees from Howard University School of Divinity. In 1968, Latimer organized and founded Federally Employed Women (FEW). She joined the General Services Administration (GSA) in the early 1970s as an assistant general counsel. In 1976, she left to serve as assistant general counsel for NASA. In 1977, she returned to GSA and became the first woman and African American to serve as general counsel of a major federal agency. From 1987 to 1995, she served as special counsel for ethics and civil rights at GSA. In 2009, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. |
| Credits | Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane. |
| Performer | Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2004 May 20. |
| 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 | A2004.055 HistoryMakers |