The HistoryMakers video oral history with Armstrong Williams.
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Imprint: | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016] |
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Description: | 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 55 min., 35 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/11336620 |
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Armstrong Williams Armstrong Williams |
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Other authors / contributors: | Williams, Armstrong, 1959- 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 Washington, District of Columbia 2003 July 29. Vendor-supplied metadata. |
Summary: | Newspaper columnist and radio host Armstrong Williams was born on February 5, 1959, in Marion, South Carolina. He grew up on a tobacco farm and graduated from South Carolina State University in 1981. A third-generation Republican, Williams was mentored by Strom Thurmond, for whom he served as a legislative aide. He worked in public relations before gaining prominence for his newspaper commentaries defending his former boss, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Soon he had a weekly syndicated column, and in 1991 got his own radio show. The Right Side with Armstrong Williams was broadcast on radio stations nationwide. Williams also hosted a nationally aired television program, The Armstrong Williams Show. He was a frequent guest columnist in several newspapers, and appeared as a regular political commentator on several radio and television programs. Williams was also CEO of his own public relations firm, the Graham Williams Group. |
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