The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sterling Tucker.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sterling Tucker.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 41 min., 46 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:
Tucker, Sterling -- Interviews.
Tucker, Sterling.
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/11336677
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Sterling Tucker
Sterling Tucker
Other authors / contributors:Tucker, Sterling, 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 Washington, District of Columbia 2004 August 2.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:City administrator, consultant, and nonprofit executive Sterling Tucker was born in Akron, Ohio on December 21, 1923. After high school, he enrolled in the University of Akron, earning his A.B. degree in 1946 and his M.A. degree in 1950. Moving to Washington, DC in 1956, Tucker became the head of the Washington chapter of the National Urban League. Remaining in that position until 1974, when he was elected to Washington's City Council in the first election after the establishment of Home Rule. In 1978, Tucker ran for the office of mayor, but lost to Marion Barry. Following his defeat in the mayoral campaign, Tucker was named assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, remaining until 1981. That year, he opened Sterling Tucker Associates, a consulting firm. From 1988 to 1990, he served as Washington, DC's drug czar, working to develop strategies for combating drug usage.

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