- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 17 min., 53 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Corporate executive and entrepreneur Edwin Joseph Rigaud was born on June 25, 1943 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Attending Corpus Christi School, he graduated from St. Augustine High School in 1961. Earning a B.S. degree in chemistry from Xavier University in New Orleans in 1965, he joined Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble Company. Rigaud received his M.S. degree in biochemistry from the University of Cincinnati in 1973. Moving to marketing and general management in 1992, Rigaud became the first African American line vice president in the history of Proctor & Gamble. In 1996, Rigaud was appointed the first executive director of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati. Appointed to the National Museum and Library Services Board by President Bush in 2002, Rigaud founded plastic molding businesses Enova Partners, LLC and Enova Tech, LLC in 2004. Rigaud and his wife Carole Tyler Rigaud raised three children.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Edwin Rigaud
- Edwin Rigaud
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 998758096
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Edwin Rigaud.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
031753
- 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, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Cincinnati, Ohio 2006 March 23.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Corporate Executive Production Company Entrepreneur.
- Added Author
Rigaud, Edwin, 1943- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.