The HistoryMakers video oral history with Samuel Yette.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 56 min., 33 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/11336662
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Samuel Yette
Samuel Yette
Other authors / contributors:Yette, Samuel F., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Silver Spring, Maryland 2004 June 7.
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Summary:Author, journalist and publisher Samuel F. Yette was born on July 2, 1929 in Harriman, Tennessee. After high school, he briefly attended Morristown College and Tennessee State University, before joining the Air Force in 1951. Teaching in Chattanooga, he completed his B.S. degree from Indiana University. In 1956, Yette teamed with Gordon Parks as special correspondent for LIFE magazine. Yette reported for the Afro-American Newspapers, and integrated the Dayton Journal Herald. As associate editor of Ebony and director of information for Tuskegee University, Yette's reputation grew. In 1963, he was selected executive secretary of the Peace Corps, then special assistant for civil rights to the director of the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. Yette became the first black Washington correspondent for Newsweek in 1968. Authoring The Choice: The Issue of Black Survival In America in 1971, Yette garnered numerous awards. He later founded Cottage Books, a publishing company. He passed away on January 21, 2011.