The HistoryMakers video oral history with Angeles Echols.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 23 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2005.230
Subjects

Other author/creatorEchols, Angeles, 1957- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorBrock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Angeles Echols
Portion of title Angeles Echols
Abstract Actress and nonprofit executive Angeles Echols was born on January 11, 1957, in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended Georgia Elementary School, Hamilton Middle School and graduated from Hamilton High School in 1975. She earned her B.A. degree in psychology from Cornell University in 1979 and her M.A. degree in counseling, marriage and family child therapy in 2007, also studying drama in graduate school. In 1989, she was cast in the film, She Knows Too Much. In 2005, Echols portrayed the title character in Sojourner, a play about activist Sojourner Truth. Echols pursued her interest and belief in the transformative power of combining dramatic arts and therapy. Beginning with 2 students in her apartment, she built Educating Young Minds, a learning environment for inner city youth. EYM also provides college scholarships for EYM high school graduates. Echols received awards from Yvonne Braithwaite-Burke, the City of Los Angeles, the California State Assembly and the U.S. Senate.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Performer Paul Brock, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Los Angeles, California 2005 October 4.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Los Angeles, California 2006 March 20.
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 numberA2005.230 HistoryMakers

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