The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Mary Flowers.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description1 online resource (4 video files (2 hr., 8 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2000.050
Subjects

Other author/creatorFlowers, Mary Evelyn, 1951- interviewee.
Other author/creatorHodge, Adele, interviewer.
Other author/creatorHaynes, Frank (Videographer), director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Mary Flowers
Portion of title The Honorable Mary Flowers
Abstract Politician Mary Evelyn Flowers was born on July 31, 1951, in Inverness, Mississippi. Flowers attended Simeon High School in 1970, and enrolled at Kennedy-King College in Chicago before transferring to the University of Illinois at Chicago. After receiving her degree, Flowers held a series of positions at UIC before assuming the position of vice chancellor for academic affairs, which she held from 1977 to 1979. Flowers' began her political career as a volunteer for the mayoral campaign of Harold Washington. In 1985, she was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives from Chicago's 31st District. As a member of the state legislature, Flowers was instrumental in helping to pass health care and children's rights legislation. She also sponsored the Illinois Managed Care Act, which was signed into law. Flowers then spearheaded the renaming of the Calumet Expressway to the Bishop Ford Highway, making it the first expressway to be named after an African American.
CreditsVideographer, Frank Haynes.
Performer Adele Hodge, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Chicago, Illinois 2000 August 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 numberA2000.050 HistoryMakers

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