The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lilia Abron.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 53 min., 6 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2012.113
Subjects

Other author/creatorAbron, Lilia, 1945- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Lilia Abron
Portion of title Lilia Abron
Abstract Chemical engineer Lilia Ann Abron was born March 8, 1945 in Memphis, Tennessee, where she obtained her B.S. degree in chemistry at Lemoyne College in 1966. She moved to Missouri and earned her M.S. degree in sanitary engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1968. Abron became the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Iowa in 1972 and went on to serve as assistant professor of civil engineering at Tennessee State University, Vanderbilt University and Howard University. In 1978, Abron founded PEER Consultants, an environmental engineering consulting firm. Abron founded Peer Africa in 1995 with the mission of building energy-efficient homes in post-apartheid South Africa. She also served as president of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. In 2004, Abron was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Washington, District of Columbia 2012 June 17.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2012.113 HistoryMakers

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