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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Norma Adams-Wade
Norma Adams-Wade
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| Other authors / contributors: | Adams-Wade, Norma, 1944- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Dallas, Texas 2014 March 6.
Recorded Dallas, Texas 2017 March 14.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Journalist Norma Adams-Wade was born in Dallas, Texas. In 1966, she graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in journalism and was hired by Collins Radio Company as a copy editor for NASA equipment manuals. From 1968 to 1972, she worked for Bloom Advertising Agency as an advertising copywriter and production assistant, and, from 1972 until 1974, she served as a reporter and editor's assistant at The Dallas Post Tribune. Then, in 1974, Adams-Wade was hired as the first African American full-time general reporter for The Dallas Morning News, where she served as a senior staff writer and columnist. She created The Dallas Morning News' Black History Month series in 1985 and helped launch The News' Metro South Bureau in 1988. Adams-Wade was also a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) as well as the founding director of NABJ's Region VII.
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