The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lenny Springs.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (4 video files (2 hr., 20 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/11318837
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Lenny Springs
Lenny Springs
Other authors / contributors:Springs, Lenny, 1947- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2005 July 11.
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Summary:Banking executive Lenny Fitzgerald Springs was born in 1947 in Edgefield, South Carolina. After graduating from Voorhees College in 1968, he worked for Greenville South Carolina's Urban League. In 1983, he joined Southern Bank, and in 1985, First Union Corporation. In April of 2002, Wachovia Corporation named Springs director of Supplier Diversity. Springs served on the United States Department of the Treasury Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group, as vice chairman of the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission and as NAACP's Special Contribution Fund Board of Trustees chairman. He founded Charlotte North Carolina's 100 Black Men of America and is past president of Voorhees College's National Alumni and National Urban Bankers Associations. The NAACP awarded Springs its South Carolina Legal Award for 1980. Spring's military honors include two Bronze Stars and an Air Medal.