Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ulysses Ford.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ulysses Ford.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 23 min., 49 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Corporate executive and city administrator Ulysses Grant Ford III was born on September 28, 1943, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Pursuing his interest in mathematics, Ford graduated from Talladega College in 1965. In 1968, Ford became an accountant and worked for Allstate Insurance and Equitable Life Insurance. In 1972, he began his career in civil service. Ford worked as Public Works Department administrative assistant in Charlotte; director of solid waste management in Ann Arbor, Michigan; director of city services in Fort Worth, Texas; and director of public works in Houston. In 1992, after twenty years as a civil servant, Ford became the vice president of Waste Management, Inc. In 1998, Ford founded SDC Consulting in Macon, Georgia, to represent private companies to local governments nationwide. He was a member of 100 Black Men of America and served as president of the Municipal Waste Management Association of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Ford passed away on March 20, 2012.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Ulysses Ford
- Ulysses Ford
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1003150073
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ulysses Ford.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 032349
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Samuel Adams, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
- Recorded Macon, Georgia 2002 March 18.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Business Consulting Chief Executive.
- Added Author
- Ford, Ulysses G., III, 1943-2012, interviewee.Adams, Samuel, interviewer.Stearns, Scott, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.