The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jean Boone.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jean Boone.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 47 min., 58 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:
Boone, Jean, -- 1943- -- Interviews.
African Americans -- Interviews.
African Americans.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318703
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Jean Boone
Jean Boone
Other authors / contributors:Boone, Jean, 1943- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Richmond, Virginia 2016 December 9.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:Newspaper publishing executive Jean Boone was born on March 14, 1943 in Columbia, South Carolina. Boone earned her B.A. degree from Dillard University in 1962, and her M.S. degree in social work from Boston University in 1966. After graduating from Boston University, Boone moved to Richmond, Virginia, and became an adjunct professor of education at Virginia Commonwealth University. She also worked as associate director for housing and economic development for the Urban League of Richmond; as director of state and local affairs for the Children's Defense Fund; and manager of community affairs and marketing for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Boone joined her husband, Raymond Boone, Sr., in establishing Paradigm Communications, Inc., which began publishing the Richmond Free Press starting in 1992. Boone was appointed advertising director, a position she held until her husband's death in 2014. She succeeded him as the publisher of the Richmond Free Press.

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