The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sherrilyn Ifill.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 42 min., 35 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2016.012
Subjects

Other author/creatorIfill, Sherrilyn A., interviewee.
Other author/creatorRichardson, Julieanna L., 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 Sherrilyn Ifill
Portion of title Sherrilyn Ifill
Abstract Nonprofit CEO and lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill was born in 1963 in New York, New York. She graduated from Vassar College with her B.A. degree in English in 1984. She went on to receive her J.D. degree from New York University School of Law in 1987. Ifill worked as assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1988 to 1993. In 1993, she accepted a faculty position at the University of Maryland Francis King Cary School of Law. In 2007, Ifill published On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century. In 2012, she was chosen as President and Director-Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. A change agent, Ifill contributes to public discussion of civil rights on network news and National Public Radio. She served as the Board Chair of U.S. Programs for Open Society Foundations from 2011 to 2013.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2016 August 29.
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 numberA2016.012 HistoryMakers

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