The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ruth Campbell.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 17 min., 5 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/11318778
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Ruth Campbell
Ruth Campbell
Other authors / contributors:Campbell, Ruth, 1939- interviewee.
Gines, Denise, 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.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Recorded Jackson, Mississippi 2017 May 24.
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Summary:Ruth Campbell was born in June 1939. She received her A.A. degree from Coahoma Junior College in Mississippi; her B.S. degree in language arts from Jackson State College; and, her M.A. from University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Campbell began her career as a teacher of English and French in Jackson Public Schools. She moved into broadcasting at Mississippi Educational Television Network (PBS), serving as host of Mississippi's longest running minority-oriented public affairs series, script-editor, producer/director, to become network Executive Producer for Public Affairs programming. Campbell served as Special Assistant/Scheduling to Mississippi Governor, Ray Mabus. Following his term of office, she was Associate Director of Jackson State University Universities Center. She joined Trilogy Communications as Manager of Customer Service; and public relations director for MetroCenter Mall, a multi-purpose medical and commercial center. . Campbell was also deputy director for the City of Jackson Department of Human and Cultural Services.