The HistoryMakers video oral history with Rufus Williams.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 21 min., 16 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2008.025
Subjects

Other author/creatorWilliams, Rufus, 1956- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Rufus Williams
Portion of title Rufus Williams
Abstract Accountant and academic administrator Rufus Williams, Jr. was born on December 30, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Morton Upper Grade Center in 1978, Williams attended Orr High School where he was a member of the school's basketball team. He enrolled at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he graduated magna cum laude with his B.S. degree in accounting. Williams was hired as a certified public accountant for Arthur Anderson & Company. He worked there until 1988 when he became the corporate audit manager for the Baxter Healthcare Corporation. Williams went on to work for the Harpo Entertainment Group as a senior manager before starting his own business management firm, Olympus LLC. Williams was appointed to the Chicago Public School (CPS) Board in 2005 and served on the board of trustees of the CPS Teachers Pension and Retirement Fund before succeeding Michael Scott as school board president in 2006.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Chicago, Illinois 2008 February 22.
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 numberA2008.025 HistoryMakers

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