The HistoryMakers video oral history with Christopher R. Cloud.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Christopher R. Cloud.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 45 min., 13 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Cloud, Christopher R., -- 1969- -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318110

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Christopher R. Cloud Christopher R. Cloud
Other authors / contributors:	Cloud, Christopher R., 1969- interviewee. Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. Stearns, Scott, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Scott Stearns. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded New Haven, Connecticut 2005 February 14. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Foundation CEO Christopher R. Cloud was born on April 15, 1969, in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut. Cloud earned his B.A. degree in political science from Howard University in 1991. His began his career as an associate for the Council on Foundations. Later, he was a legislative aide for Connecticut State Senator Eric Coleman. Cloud wrote the legislation that created the Connecticut African-American Affairs Commission. In 1997, Cloud was appointed project manager for AMISTAD America in New Haven, Connecticut. At AMISTAD, Cloud conceived and designed Freedom Schooner Amistad, a human rights education project that re-creates the Spanish ship, Amistad, made famous by the 1839 slave revolt. Cloud was promoted to executive director of AMISTAD America in 1999, and served as the company's president and chief executive officer. In 2004, he received the Tourism Ambassador of the Year Award from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 45 min., 13 sec.)) : sound, color. 024513
Playing Time:	02:45:13
Production Credits:	Videographer, Scott Stearns.