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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Shirlee Haizlip
Shirlee Haizlip
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| Other authors / contributors: | Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, 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, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Los Angeles, California 2013 November 16.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Television executive and author Shirlee Taylor Haizlip was born on September 3, 1937 in Stratford, Connecticut. She graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts with her B.A. degree in 1959, and Harvard University's School of Urban Design with her M.A. degree in urban planning in 1966. In 1975, Haizlip joined WBNB-TV where she became the first African American to serve as general manager of a CBS-TV affiliate. She then served as director of corporate communications for WNET-TV in New York City. Haizlip also authored several books: The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White, In the Garden of Our Dreams, and Finding Grace: Two Sisters and the Search for Meaning beyond the Color Line. The University of New Haven awarded Haizlip an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters Degree, and Wellesley College honored her as an "Outstanding Alumnae" along with former U.S. Secretary of States Hillary Rodham Clinton and Madeline K. Albright.
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