Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Elaine Jones.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Jones, Elaine R., 1944-
• Richardson, Julieanna L.
• Burghelea, Neculai
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (11 video files (5 hr., 38 min., 32 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Civil rights lawyer Elaine R. Jones was born on March 2, 1944 in Norfolk, Virginia. Jones graduated from Howard University in 1965. She joined the Peace Corps and taught English to students in Turkey, before attending the University of Virginia Law School, and graduating in 1970. Jones declined a job with a prominent Wall Street firm to join the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund (LDF). In the 1972 Furman v. Georgia Jones case, Jones won a resolution which abolished the death penalty in thirty-seven states for twelve years. She argued numerous discrimination cases, including some against the country's biggest employers. In 1975, Jones became special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman, and she returned to the LDF in 1977 as a litigator. From 1993 to 2004, Jones served as the first woman president and director-counsel of the LDF.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Elaine Jones
• Elaine Jones

Subjects

• Nonfiction films
• Internet videos
• Oral histories
• Interviews
• Civil Rights Lawyer
• African Americans > Interviews
• Jones, Elaine R., 1944- > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.

OCLC

1000518968

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Elaine Jones.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Playing Time

053832

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, Neculai Burghelea.

Event

Recorded New York, New York 2006 November 30.

Recorded New York, New York 2007 March 6.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Civil Rights Lawyer.

Added Author

Jones, Elaine R., 1944- interviewee.

Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.

Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.