The HistoryMakers video oral history with Rosetta Miller-Perry.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 13 min., 10 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2007.096
Subjects

Other author/creatorMiller-Perry, Rosetta, 1934-2026 interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Rosetta Miller-Perry
Portion of title Rosetta Miller-Perry
Abstract Civil rights activist and newspaper publishing chief executive Rosetta Miller-Perry was born on July 7, 1934 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. Miller-Perry earned her B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Memphis in 1956 and her D.M.S. degree from John A. Gumpton School of Mortuary Science in 1957. In Nashville, Miller-Perry worked closely with attorney Z. Alexander Looby and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She was a United States Civil Rights Commission field representative in 1968 and became Nashville Area Director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from 1980 to 1990. Perry founded Contempora magazine in 1990 and the Tennessee Tribune newspaper in 1992. She established the Greater Nashville Black Chamber of Commerce (GNBCC) in 1998 and created the Anthony J. Cebrun Journalism Center for Youth in partnership with Dell Computers. The Rosetta I. Miller Scholarship at Memphis State University was created in her honor and the Rosetta Miller-Perry Award is presented annually at the Nashville Film Festival.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Nashville, Tennessee 2007 March 18.
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 numberA2007.096 HistoryMakers

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