- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 50 min., 13 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Master tailor and tailoring instructor Marion William Anderson was born on April 18, 1926, in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1947, after serving in the U.S. Army in Asia for a few months, he graduated from Burke Industrial High School with a major in tailoring. In 1949, Anderson moved to Harlem, New York to look for work. In 1956, he began instructing prisoners in the tailor shop on Rikers Island. Four years later, he convinced the New York City Board of Education to create a tailoring curriculum, and he was hired at Sterling High School in Brooklyn, New York, where he taught tailoring for thirty-three years. In 1987, Anderson founded his own school, the Manhattanville Needle Trade School, in Harlem; and, in 2007, celebrated his twentieth year as its director. During his career, Anderson has tailored suits for many members of the Harlem elite and taught a valuable trade to hundreds.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Marion Anderson
- Marion Anderson
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- OCLC
- 994208737
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Marion Anderson.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
015013
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2007 June 29.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Master Tailor Tailoring Instructor.
- Added Author
Anderson, Marion, 1926-2015, interviewee.
Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.