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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Wendell Campbell
Wendell Campbell
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| Other authors / contributors: | Campbell, Wendell, 1927-2008, interviewee.
Hodge, Adele, 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.
Adele Hodge, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 August 14.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 August 21.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Wendell Campbell was born on April 27, 1927, in East Chicago, Indiana. He received his B.A. in architecture and city planning at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1957. He served in the U. S. Army. In 1966, he became CEO of his own architecture firm, Wendell Campbell Associates, since renamed Campbell Tiu Campbell. Campbell was a founder and the first president of the National Organization of Minority Architects, founded in 1971. Campbell was dedicated to improving the quality of affordable housing in metropolitan centers. He hoped to accomplish this goal through the design of "smart homes", housing that brought twenty-first-century technology to meet the varied needs and challenges facing urban families. Campbell served on various boards of directors and was affiliated with numerous professional and civic organizations. He married June Crusor Campbell in 1954, with whom he raised two daughters. Wendell Campbell passed away on July 16, 2008 at age 81.
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