Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Vernon Smith
Vernon Smith
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| Other authors / contributors: | Smith, Vern E., interviewee.
Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Stearns, Scott, 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.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Paul Brock, interviewer.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 August 2.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 August 26.
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| Summary: | Journalist and author Vern Smith was born Vernon Emil Smith on February 13, 1946 in Natchez, Mississippi. Smith attended San Francisco State University, where he was a member of the school's Black Student Union. He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1969. Smith joined Newsweek as a correspondent in 1971 after being recruited by John L. Dotson Jr. Smith was assigned to the Detroit bureau, where he learned from veteran writers Jim Jones and Jon Lowell. In 1973, Smith was transferred to Atlanta, where he covered Maynard Jackson's campaign to become Atlanta's first African American mayor. He also wrote articles about several unsolved civil rights murders and covered the trials of the Klansmen convicted in the 1963 church bombings in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four little girls. In 1979, Smith became Newsweek's Atlanta Bureau chief. Smith wrote numerous articles for several publications including Ebony and TV Guide.
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