The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lorenzo Morris.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 5 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318147
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Lorenzo Morris
Lorenzo Morris
Other authors / contributors:Morris, Lorenzo, 1946- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2005 June 28.
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Summary:Professor Lorenzo Morris was born on October 27, 1946 in Poughkeepsie, New York. After high school, Morris entered Fisk University before continuing his studies at Oberlin College and Yale University. He attended the University of Chicago earning his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in political science. He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was a Brookings Institution research fellow and worked as a senior fellow at the Institute for the Study of Educational Policy. Morris chaired the Political Science Department at Howard University, and was an author and consultant on international and public policy and electoral issues. Morris served as a commentator for television and radio and authored books and journal articles. He acted as co-director of the Census Information Center at Howard University, served as president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and was vice-chair of the University Senate and president of Phi Beta Kappa at Howard University.