The HistoryMakers video oral history with Callie Crossley.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 18 min., 14 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/11337113
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Callie Crossley
Callie Crossley
Other authors / contributors:Crossley, Callie, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2013 April 23.
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Summary:Journalist Callie Crossley was born in 1951 in Memphis, Tennessee. Crossley earned her B. A. degree in English from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1973. Crossley began her career as a reporter for WREC in Memphis, Tennessee, then as a health reporter for WTHR-TV in Indianapolis. She also worked at WGBH in Boston. In 1987, she joined Blackside, Inc. where she wrote and directed two hours of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 and This Far by Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys. Crossley moved to ABC Television Network as a producer on the 20/20 news magazine. She joined WGBH Radio in 2010, where she hosted The Callie Crossley Show, Boston Public Radio and Under the Radar with Callie Crossley. Crossley received an Oscar nomination, a National Emmy, and the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award for her role as a producer of Eyes on the Prize.