Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Orlando L. Taylor Orlando L. Taylor
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Other authors / contributors: | Taylor, Orlando L., 1936- interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, 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, Edgar Carey Lane. Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer. Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2004 June 14. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Academic administrator and professor Orlando Taylor was born on August 9, 1936 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He earned his B.S. degree in education from Hampton University in 1957, and his M.A. degree in 1960 from Indiana University. He earned his Ph.D. degree in education at the University of Michigan in 1966. From 1958 to 1960, Taylor worked as a speech-language clinician, identifying speech disorders in patients. From 1960 to 1962, he was the director of the speech and hearing clinic at Fort Wayne State School in Indiana. Taylor was a professor of communication sciences at the University of the District of Columbia from 1970 to 1973. In 1972, Taylor and several other colleagues coined the term Ebonics to describe black speech patterns. In 1973, Taylor joined the faculty at Howard University where he served in several, including dean of the Graduate School, vice provost for research and a professor in the School of Communications.
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