- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 24 min., 5 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Civil rights lawyer and civic activist Adjoa Aiyetoro earned an A.B. degree in 1967 from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, and an M.S.W. degree in 1969 from George Warren Brown School of Social Work. In 1978, she graduated cum laude from St. Louis University School of Law. Aiyetoro served as staff attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice beginning in 1978 and then joined the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation as an attorney in 1982. As director of the National Conference of Black Lawyers beginning in 1993, she strengthened both its advocacy efforts and fiscal position. She has also served as chief legal consultant to the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America and co-chairperson of the Reparations Coordinating Committee. Aiyetoro taught law at American University and served on the law faculty of University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Adjoa Aiyetoro
- Adjoa Aiyetoro
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 994208820
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Adjoa Aiyetoro.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
032405
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2003 July 23.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Civic Activist Civil Rights Lawyer.
- Added Author
Aiyetoro, Adjoa, 1946- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.