The HistoryMakers video oral history with Alvin Little.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (2 video files (51 min., 32 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2002.059
Subjects

Other author/creatorLittle, Alvin D., 1926-2017, interviewee.
Other author/creatorAdams, Samuel, 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 Alvin Little
Portion of title Alvin Little
Abstract Civic leader and humble activist Alvin Little was born on May 10, 1926 in Bradenton, Florida. In August 1942, with the beginning of World War II, he dropped out of high school and entered the U.S. Navy. There, he became a motor machinist on the cargo ship "Boston College" in the North Atlantic. He graduated in 1947 from Bradenton's Lincoln High School. He went on to attend Bethune-Cookman College. In 1962, he was working as the head waiter at New York-based William Talleyhouse Cafeteria. When this establishment refused to serve black people, Little and his crew threatened to quit. William Talleyhouse Cafeteria was the first restaurant in Bradenton to be integrated. Little was hired by the U.S. Postal Service in 1964. Retired as a letter carrier, he worked as a certified nurse's assistant in Bradenton. Little passed away on February 2, 2017 at age 90.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Samuel Adams, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Bradenton, Florida 2002 April 24.
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 numberA2002.059 HistoryMakers

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