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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Harriett G. Jenkins
Harriett G. Jenkins
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| Other authors / contributors: | Jenkins, Harriett G., 1926-2016, interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, 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, Edgar Carey Lane.
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
Recorded Bethesda, Maryland 2004 August 12.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Educator and government administrator Harriet G. Jenkins was born on July 26, 1926 in Fort Worth, Texas. She earned her B.A. degree in mathematics in 1945 from Fisk University. From 1948 until 1954, Jenkins worked for Golden State Insurance Company and the Oakland Police Department. She worked in the Berkeley, California school system for twenty years and was the city's first black female vice-principal. In 1957, she earned her M.S. degree in education from the University of California at Berkeley. In 1984, she earned her J.D. degree from Georgetown University. She worked as assistant administrator for equal opportunity programs at NASA where she implemented programs that assisted minorities, including recruiting some of the agency's first black astronauts. She was director of the Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices in the U.S. Senate, and retired from the federal government in 1996. In 2000, NASA established a doctoral fellowship in Jenkins' name.
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