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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Wright.

Title
  1. The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Wright.
Published by
  1. Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Available online

Details

Additional authors
  1. Wright, Robert, 1937-
  2. Crowe, Larry F.
  3. Stearns, Scott
  4. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
  1. 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 20 min.)) : sound, color.
Summary
  1. City administrator, civil rights activist, and corporate executive Robert Lee Wright was born on March 17, 1937, in Columbus, Georgia. Wright graduated in 1960 from Ohio State University College of Optometry with his degree in optometry. He returned to Georgia where he began practicing as an optometrist. In 1965, he participated in the Selma to Montgomery March. In 1968, he won a seat as a member of the Columbus City Council, where he was re-elected three times before being appointed to the position of Associate Administrator for Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development by President Ronald Reagan. In 1985, he founded Dimensions International, Inc., providing leading-edge technology to the government and private sector in the fields of logistic support, systems engineering and integration, information management and technology, airspace management and security engineering and operations. Under Wright's leadership, Dimensions International grew to a multimillion dollar defense contractor, listed amongst Black Enterprise's 100.
Alternative title
  1. History Makers video oral history with Robert Wright
  2. Robert Wright
Subject
  1. Wright, Robert, 1937- > Interviews
  2. Wright, Robert
  3. African Americans > Interviews
  4. African Americans
  5. Technology Chief Executive Civil Rights Activist City Council Member
Genre/Form
  1. Internet videos.
  2. Interviews.
  3. Nonfiction films.
  4. Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  1. Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Title
  1. The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Wright.
Publisher
  1. Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of producing entity
  1. United States naf
Playing time
  1. 022000
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. computer
Type of carrier
  1. online resource
Digital file characteristics
  1. video file
Performer
  1. Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Credits
  1. Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Event
  1. Recorded Alexandria, Virginia 2008 May 1.
Source of description
  1. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
  1. Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed term
  1. Technology Chief Executive Civil Rights Activist City Council Member.
Added author
  1. Wright, Robert, 1937- interviewee.
  2. Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
  3. Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
  4. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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