The HistoryMakers video oral history with Allie B. Latimer.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (4 video files (2 hr., 1 min., 37 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2004.055
Subjects

Other author/creatorLatimer, Allie B., 1929- interviewee.
Other author/creatorHamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Other author/creatorLane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (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.
CreditsVideographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
Performer Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Washington, District of Columbia 2004 May 20.
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 numberA2004.055 HistoryMakers