The HistoryMakers video oral history with Marita Rivero.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Marita Rivero.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 28 min., 45 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Rivero, Marita -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Oral histories. Internet videos. Internet videos. Interviews. Oral histories.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11313240

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Marita Rivero Marita Rivero
Other authors / contributors:	Rivero, Marita, interviewee. Richardson, Julieanna L., 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. Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer. Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2016 October 19. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Museum director and television station general manager Marita Rivero was born November 25, 1943 in Richmond, VA. She grew up on the campus of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania where her parents were professors. She earned her B.S. degree in psychology in 1964 from Tufts University. In 1970, Rivero became a producer of public affairs television at WGBH, an NPR member station in Boston, Massachusetts. She moved to Washington D.C. to work as a communications consultant, and became general manager of WPFW Pacifica radio. Rivero returned to Boston as WGBH Radio's general manager in 1988. After serving as executive-in-charge of the Peabody Award-winning documentary series, Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery (1998), and This Far By Faith (2003), she was promoted to general manager of WGBH, in charge of radio and television. Rivero left WGBH in 2013 and became executive director of the Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket, in 2015.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 28 min., 45 sec.)) : sound, color. 042845
Playing Time:	04:28:45
Production Credits:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey.