Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Cleo F. Wilson
Cleo F. Wilson
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| Other authors / contributors: | Wilson, Cleo, 1943- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, 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, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2010 August 25.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Nonprofit executive Cleo Wilson was born May 7, 1943 spending her early years in Chicago's South side housing project Altgeld Gardens. She graduated from Frances Parker High School in 1961, and enrolled later that year, at what is now Chicago State University. Wilson left school to become a street activist protesting the city of Chicago's avoidance of school segregation, but later returned and received her B.A. degree in 1976. After graduation, Wilson was hired as an accounting clerk for Playboy and 1984 Wilson was appointed Executive Director of the Playboy Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the company. Wilson also continued fighting on behalf of free speech voting rights and recognition of the growing HIV/AIDS crisis. In 2002, Wilson began serving as president of The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, a Chicago nonprofit organization dedicated to highlighting self-taught and outsider art. She left Playboy after 25 years of service in 2005.
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