The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lois Conley.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 22 min., 40 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2007.299
Subjects

Other author/creatorConley, Lois, 1946- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., 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 Lois Conley
Portion of title Lois Conley
Abstract Museum executive Lois Conley was born on July 29, 1946, in Saint Louis, Missouri. Conley received a certificate from Miss Hickey's Business School in Saint Louis; B.A. degree in communications in 1983; her M.A. degree in education in 1993 from Saint Louis University; and a graduate certificate in museum studies from the University of Missouri at Saint Louis in 2001. She founded the Griot Museum (previously, the Blackworld History Wax Museum) in St. Louis, based on her research into African-American history, the eastern expansion and the Underground Railroad. The museum features life-sized wax figures of famous African American. Conley sculpted many of the figures. It also includes a replica of a ship used to transport enslaved Africans. Conley received several honors including the YWCA's Special Leader Award; the Coalition of 100 Black Women's Village Builders' Award; the Older Women's League "Women of Worth Award"; and the Monsanto Y's "Zealot Award".
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded St. Louis, Missouri 2007 October 19.
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 numberA2007.299 HistoryMakers