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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Vera Thelma Shorter
Vera Thelma Shorter
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| Other authors / contributors: | Shorter, Vera T., 1922- interviewee.
Hayden, Robert C., interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, 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, Neculai Burghelea.
Robert Hayden, interviewer.
Recorded Tisbury, Massachusetts 2005 June 24.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Accountant and community activist Vera Shorter was born in 1922 in Huntington, New York. After graduating from Northport High School in 1940, she attended Eastern Business School in New York City, and became a secretary and bookkeeper, earning her accounting certificate. In 1965, she was appointed supervisor of tax auditors at Manhattan's Internal Revenue Service headquarters. In 1973, she became the equal employment officer for the Manhattan branch, where she remained until retiring to Martha's Vineyard in 1976 when her husband, Rufus B. Shorter was appointed superintendent of Martha's Vineyard Public Schools. For the next twenty-nine years, she was an influential and respected civic and community leader on Martha's Vineyard, involved in virtually every aspect of Black community life and in a range of educational and civic activities in the larger community. She was a charter member of the Island's branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. .
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