Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leo Branton, Jr.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leo Branton, Jr.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 56 min., 52 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Entertainment lawyer and litigator Leo Branton, Jr., was born in 1922, in Arkansas. After he graduated from Tennessee State University, he enrolled in the Army, where he served in a segregated unit for almost three years during World War II. Upon completion of his service, Branton earned a law degree from Northwestern University in 1948, before he moved to California. In 1950, he worked with the NAACP on the trial of an African American veteran charged in the double murder of a white couple in Riverside County. His work on this case and subsequent challenge to the jury system in Riverside County led to the selection of the county's first black juror. Branton was well known both as a litigator and as an entertainment attorney. His clients included activist Angela Davis and entertainers Nat King Cole and Dorothy Dandridge. Leo Branton passed away on April 19, 2013.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Leo Branton, Jr.
- Leo Branton, Jr.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 994208307
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leo Branton, Jr.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States. naf
- Playing Time
- 035652
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
- Recorded Los Angeles, California 2001 July 27.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Entertainment Lawyer.
- Added Author
- Branton, Leo, Jr., 1922-2013, interviewee.Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.Stearns, Scott, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.