The HistoryMakers video oral history with Art Gilliam, Jr.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 35 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2014.086
Subjects

Other author/creatorGilliam, Art, Jr., 1943- 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 Art Gilliam, Jr.
Portion of title Art Gilliam, Jr.
Abstract Radio station owner Art Gilliam was born on March 6, 1943 in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1963, at age twenty, Gilliam graduated with his B.A. degree in economics from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He then received his M.B.A degree from the University of Michigan in 1967. Gilliam worked for Universal Life Insurance where he remained until 1975. In 1968, he began writing a weekly editorial for The Commercial Appeal and was hired by WMC-TV in Memphis as the weekend news anchor. Gilliam was the first African American to write for The Commercial Appeal and the first African American on-air reporter and anchor on Memphis television, WMC-TV. In 1977, he launched Gilliam Communications, Inc. and bought WLOK radio station, making WLOK the first African American-owned Memphis radio station and the city's first locally-owned station. Gilliam's WLOK was recognized by the Tennessee Historical Commission as a Tennessee Historical Landmark in 1997.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Memphis, Tennessee 2014 April 26.
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 numberA2014.086 HistoryMakers

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