The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ulysses Ford.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ulysses Ford.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 23 min., 49 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Ford, Ulysses G., -- III, -- 1943-2012 -- 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/11336499

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Ulysses Ford Ulysses Ford
Other authors / contributors:	Ford, Ulysses G., III, 1943-2012, interviewee. Adams, Samuel, 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. Samuel Adams, interviewer. Recorded Macon, Georgia 2002 March 18. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Corporate executive and city administrator Ulysses Grant Ford III was born on September 28, 1943, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Pursuing his interest in mathematics, Ford graduated from Talladega College in 1965. In 1968, Ford became an accountant and worked for Allstate Insurance and Equitable Life Insurance. In 1972, he began his career in civil service. Ford worked as Public Works Department administrative assistant in Charlotte; director of solid waste management in Ann Arbor, Michigan; director of city services in Fort Worth, Texas; and director of public works in Houston. In 1992, after twenty years as a civil servant, Ford became the vice president of Waste Management, Inc. In 1998, Ford founded SDC Consulting in Macon, Georgia, to represent private companies to local governments nationwide. He was a member of 100 Black Men of America and served as president of the Municipal Waste Management Association of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Ford passed away on March 20, 2012.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 23 min., 49 sec.)) : sound, color. 032349
Playing Time:	03:23:49
Production Credits:	Videographer, Scott Stearns.