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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Sylvester Monroe
Sylvester Monroe
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| Other authors / contributors: | Monroe, Sylvester, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
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, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 August 25.
Recorded San Francisco, California 2012 November 30.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Author, newspaper editor and magazine correspondent Sylvester Monroe was born August 5, 1951 in Leland, Mississippi. Raised in Chicago's housing projects, Monroe attended John B. Drake and Douglas Elementary Schools. Starting at Phillips High School, he graduated from St. George's Preparatory School in 1969, aided by the "A Better Chance Program". Monroe graduated from Harvard University cum laude with a B.A. degree in social studies in 1973. Monroe's career began as a correspondent in Newsweek's Boston bureau. He went on to serve as Chicago correspondent from 1976 to 1978, and as deputy bureau chief from 1978 to 1983. He was Boston bureau chief from 1983 to 1985 before joining Newsweek's Washington bureau. Monroe joined Time magazine in 1989 as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. He became deputy managing editor of the San Jose Mercury News in 2001, but later that year joined the Atlanta Journal - Constitution as Sunday editor for the National/Foreign Desk.
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