Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with William King William King
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Other authors / contributors: | King, William M., 1940- 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 Boulder, Colorado 2002 June 18. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Professor William M. King was born on February 11, 1940, and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Kent State University in 1966 with his B.A. degree in psychology, he taught children with special needs in Canton, Ohio. As a lecturer in sociology at Walsh College, King became involved with the UPWARD BOUND program in 1968. Focusing on urban studies, he earned his M.S. degree in 1970 from the University of Akron and his Ph.D. degree in 1974 from Syracuse University's Maxwell Graduate School of Citizenship and Public Affairs where he was appointed to the graduate school faculty. King was publications unit director for the University of Colorado-Boulder's Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America. He directed its black studies program. A founding member of The National Council for Black Studies, King belonged to the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History and was widely published.
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