Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Mary Mitchell
Mary Mitchell
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| Other authors / contributors: | Mitchell, Mary, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., 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.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2007 January 21.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Newspaper columnist Mary Mitchell was born Mary A. Duncan on May 23, 1949 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She attended Chicago's Einstein Elementary School and Wendell Phillips Upper Grade Center. Graduating from Dunbar Vocational High School in 1967, Mitchell became the first African American legal secretary at a major Chicago law firm (Seyfarth Shaw, LLP) in 1969. Resigning in 1989, Mitchell was drawn to a career in journalism. She began an internship with the Chicago Sun-Times in 1990 and graduated with her B.A. degree in journalism from Columbia College in 1991. Mitchell was soon hired full time by the Chicago Sun-Times, and began writing a column in 1996 that would attract a significant national following. She was a recipient of numerous journalism awards and a frequent guest panelist on television and radio programs. Mitchell was a past president of the Chicago Association of Black Journalists and a member of the Association of Women Journalists.
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