Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Shirley Jean Wilcher
Shirley Jean Wilcher
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| Other authors / contributors: | Wilcher, Shirley J., 1951- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, 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, Neculai Burghelea.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2005 June 29.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Civil rights lawyer and management consultant Shirley Jean Wilcher was born on July 28, 1951 in Erie, Pennsylvania. Wilshire attended school in Akron, Ohio and Boston where she graduated from Girls Latin High School in 1969. Graduating in 1973 from Mt. Holyoke College with a B.A. degree, she earned an M.A. degree from the New School for Social Research in 1976. Wilshire was awarded the Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1979. Wilcher became director for State Relations and General Counsel for the National Association for Independent Colleges and Universities from 1990 to 1994. From 1994 to 2001, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration for minorities. In 2001, Wilcher formed Wilcher Global, LLC to help organizations reach diversity goals. She received the NAACP Benjamin Hooks Award, The Keeper of the Flame Award and the American Association for Affirmative Action's Rosa Parks Award in 2004.
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