The HistoryMakers video oral history with Margaret Peters.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 29 min., 26 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11313140
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Margaret Peters
Margaret Peters
Other authors / contributors:Peters, Margaret, 1936- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Dayton, Ohio 2006 March 20.
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Summary:Educator and historian Margaret Peters was born on March 12, 1936 in Dayton, Ohio. Her parents, Mary Margaret Smith Peters and building contactor Joseph Andrew Peters, were stalwarts of the NAACP. Peters graduated from Dayton Roosevelt High School in 1954. At the University of Dayton, she earned her B.A. degree in 1959 and her B.S. degree in 1963. Peters also received her M.S. degree in 1972. In 1968, Peters was appointed Black History Resource Teacher for Dayton Public Schools. Johnson Publishing released Peters' book entitled, Ebony Book of Black Achievement in 1970. In 1995, the Donning Company published Peters' Dayton's African American Heritage. She also co-edited A History of Race Relations in the Miami Valley in 2001. Peters received the 1991 Excellence in Teaching Award for the Midwest Region from the National Conference of Negro Women and the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dayton Chapter of the National Forum for Black Administrators.