The HistoryMakers video oral history with Barbara Rodgers.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Barbara Rodgers.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 21 min., 18 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Rodgers, Barbara -- 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/11313255

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Barbara Rodgers Barbara Rodgers
Other authors / contributors:	Rodgers, Barbara, interviewee. Crowe, Larry, 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 San Francisco, California 2015 December 15. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Television news anchor Barbara Rodgers was born on September 27, 1946 in Knoxville, Tennessee. She received her B.S. degree in business education in 1968 from Knoxville College. Rodgers was hired by Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York, in 1968, as a computer programmer, later becoming a public affairs researcher. She joined WOKR-TV in Rochester, New York as its first female reporter and African-American news anchor in 1972. In 1979, Rodgers joined KPIX-TV channel 5, a CBS affiliate in San Francisco, California as a reporter, later became an anchor on various Eyewitness News broadcasts. She co-founded the Bay Area Black Journalist Association in 1982. Rodgers won eight Emmy Awards from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and five "Excellence in Journalism Awards" from the National Association of Black Journalists. Rodgers became a regular host on Comcast Newsmakers in 2010, and host of The Bronze Report in 2011.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 21 min., 18 sec.)) : sound, color. 042118
Playing Time:	04:21:18
Production Credits:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey.