- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (2 hr., 8 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Mary Flowers
- The Honorable Mary Flowers
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Frank Haynes.
- OCLC
- 1003150031
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Mary Flowers.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
020008
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Adele Hodge, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Frank Haynes.
- Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2000 August 11.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
State Representative.
- Added Author
Flowers, Mary Evelyn, 1951- interviewee.
Hodge, Adele, interviewer.
Haynes, Frank, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.