The HistoryMakers video oral history with Larry Gibson.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (10 video files (4 hr., 50 min., 40 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/11336683
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Larry Gibson
Larry Gibson
Other authors / contributors:Gibson, Larry S., 1942- interviewee.
Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.
Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2004 July 12.
Recorded Baltimore, Maryland 2004 September 20.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2004 October 19.
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Summary:Lawyer and professor Larry Gibson was born in Washington, D.C. on March 22, 1942. He earned his high school diploma from Baltimore City College High School in 1960, and earned his B.A. degree from Howard University in 1964. In 1967, Gibson earned his law degree from Columbia University in New York. From 1963 to 1970, Gibson worked as an associate for the firm of Brown, Allen, Dorsey and Josey, where he became a partner in 1970. From 1969 to 1975, Gibson served on the Baltimore City School Board. In 1972, Gibson became the first African American law professor at the University of Virginia, a post he held until 1974. Gibson then accepted a position at the University of Maryland law school as an associate professor. In 1977 he became a full professor at Maryland. Gibson has served as a political strategist who successfully masterminded several campaigns for former Baltimore mayor, Kurt Schmoke.