- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 59 min., 20 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Civil rights activist and city administrator Dorothy Wright Tillman was driven by a passion to improve the plight of African Americans. Born on May 12, 1947, in Montgomery, Alabama, Tillman joined the civil rights movement at age sixteen as a trainee and a field staff organizer with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Tillman helped Dr. King organize in Chicago. She participated in the march on the Edmund-Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Organizing and fighting for various causes for inner-city school reform in Chicago, Tillman became the first woman to serve as alderman of Chicago's Third Ward in 1985. As a major political figure in Chicago, she was involved in numerous improvement projects related to issues of community improvement and development. An influential player in the movement for slave reparations, Tillman received numerous awards and recognitions for her activism, and was featured in various books and documentaries.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Dorothy Tillman
- The Honorable Dorothy Tillman
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1003150111
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Dorothy Tillman.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
015920
- 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, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 September 5.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Civil Rights Activist City Alderman.
- Added Author
Tillman, Dorothy, 1947- interviewee.
Hodge, Adele, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.