The HistoryMakers video oral history with Judi Moore Latta.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (12 video files (5 hr., 17 min., 32 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/11318665
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Judi Moore Latta
Judi Moore Latta
Other authors / contributors:Moore-Latta, Judi, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Silver Spring, Maryland 2014 March 21.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2017 January 31.
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Summary:Producer and educator Judi Moore Latta was born on August 3, 1948 in Tallahassee, Florida. She received her B.S. degree from Hampton Institute in 1970 and her M.A. degree from Boston University in 1971. Latta was hired as NPR's first education reporter in 1988, and then served as executive producer of special programs. From 1992 to 1994, she worked as a senior producer of the documentary series Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions which earned her the George Foster Peabody Award. Latta received her Ph.D. degree in American Studies from the University of Maryland in 1999 and was made full professor at Howard University in 2000. In 2002, she became the first woman to serve as interim general manager of Howard University's WHUT-TV and was director of WHUR-WORLD from 2006 to 2009. From 2009 to 2012, she served as Howard University's executive director of communications and marketing.