| Other author/creator | Poulard, Grady, 1936- interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title |
History Makers video oral history with Grady Poulard |
| Portion of title |
Grady Poulard |
| Abstract |
Civil rights activist and motivational speaker Grady Emory Poulard was born on August 15, 1936 in Crowley, Louisiana. At Southern University, he was elected student body president. Graduating in 1957, Poulard began working as director of education and assistant minister to Dr. Gardner Taylor, civil rights activist at the Concord Church of Brooklyn, New York. He later received a Rockefeller Fellowship and earned a M.S. degree in philosophy and religion from Yale University. In 1962, Poulard served as dean of the Chapel at Christian Medical College in Vellore, South India. In 1965, he became the pastor of Peoples Congregational Church in Washington, DC. Involved in the civil rights movement, he was field executive for the Council of Federated Civil Rights Organizations. Poulard became the director for human relations for the U.S. General Accounting Office in 1974. He established Grady Poulard Associates, a management and human relations consulting firm in 1975. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer |
Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2005 May 4. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2005.117 HistoryMakers |
