The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Coy Payne.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 7 min.)) : sound, color
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2007.203
Subjects

Other author/creatorPayne, Coy, 1929- interviewee.
Other author/creatorLesure, Jacques, 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 The Honorable Coy Payne
Portion of title Honorable Coy Payne
Abstract Former mayor Coy C. Payne was born on May 22, 1929 in Sulphur Springs, Texas. In 1942, Payne's family moved to Chandler, Arizona in search of work picking cotton. Payne attended segregated middle and high schools, and was drafted in 1950, serving in the U.S. Army in Korea. He earned his B.S. degree in education from Arizona State University in 1958. Payne worked as an educator in Chandler Public Schools until his retirement in 1989. While teaching, he became active in community service, joining the Chandler Human Relations Committee and the Chandler Housing Authority. In 1980, Payne won a Chandler City Council seat, serving two terms from 1982 to 1989. In 1990, Payne became the first African American elected Mayor in Arizona. Payne served two terms as Mayor of Chandler, Arizona from 1990 to 1994, and oversaw the economic and population boom that occurred across the "Sun Belt."
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Jacques Lesure, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Phoenix, Arizona 2007 July 11.
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 numberA2007.203 HistoryMakers