Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Leatrice Branch Madison
Leatrice Branch Madison
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| Other authors / contributors: | Madison, Leatrice Branch, 1922-2012, interviewee.
Williams, Regennia N., 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.
Regennia Williams, interviewer.
Recorded Shaker Heights, Ohio 2004 June 14.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Civic leader and educator Leatrice Branch Madison was born September 5, 1922 in Washington, D.C. She attended segregated public schools of Washington, D.C., graduating from Dunbar Senior High in 1939. She earned her B.S. degree from Miner Teachers College and her M.A. degree in guidance and personnel from the University of Chicago. She worked as assistant librarian at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, taught in public schools of Washington, D.C. and Cleveland, Ohio and became a full-time community volunteer in 1960. She served on boards of numerous educational and human services organizations, including United Way Services and the Federation for Community Planning. She was a founder and one of the original board members for HARAMBEE: Services to Black Families, an agency designed to provide parenting skills to teenage parents and to recruit permanent adoptive homes for black children. Madison passed away on March 30, 2012 at age 89.
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