The HistoryMakers video oral history with Salim Muwakkil.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 48 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2003.040
Subjects

Other author/creatorMuwakkil, Salim, interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., 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 Salim Muwakkil
Portion of title Salim Muwakkil
Abstract Magazine editor and newspaper columnist Salim Muwakkil was born Alonzo Canady, Jr. on January 20, 1947 in New York City. After high school, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force where he served for five years as an administrative specialist. He enrolled at Rutgers University, earning his B.A. degree in political science in 1973. Starting as a news writer for the Associated Press, he became the copy editor of Muhammad Speaks-Bilalian News in 1974, changing his name to Salim Muwakkil a year later. By 1980, he started working for the U.S. Department of Housing and Development and was also a freelance writer for several publications. In 1984, he became the senior editor of In These Times. In 2007, he was host of the Salim Muwakkil Show on WVON-AM. Muwakkil was author of Harold!, a book chronicling Harold Washington's historic tenure as mayor of Chicago, as well as a contributing author to several other books.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 March 10.
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 numberA2003.040 HistoryMakers

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