- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (3 video files (1 hr., 25 min., 11 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Baseball player, civil rights activist, and newspaper publishing executive William Blair, Sr. was born on October 17, 1921, in Dallas, Texas. Blair attended Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas, and attended Prairie View A&M University. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and became the youngest black first sergeant in the Army during World War II. Blair pitched for the Indianapolis Clowns and other Negro League baseball teams from 1946 to 1951, and became a Negro League Baseball Museum inductee. Blair founded both the Highlight News and Southwest Sports News, renamed The Elite News in 1960. In 1986, Blair launched the first Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade, which became fixture of the city of Dallas. He also founded the Religious Hall of Fame to honor African American ministers in 2004. Blair published two books of his pictorial history series, The Dallas I Know, in 1990 and 1991. William Blair, Sr. passed away on April 20, 2014.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with William Blair, Jr.
- William Blair, Jr.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208909
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with William Blair, Jr.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
012511
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Denise Gines, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Dallas, Texas 2006 May 2.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Civil Rights Activist Newspaper Publishing Executive Baseball Player.
- Added Author
Blair, William, 1921-2014, interviewee.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.