The HistoryMakers video oral history with Donald V. Watkins.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Donald V. Watkins.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (7 video files (2 hr., 37 min., 42 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Watkins, Donald -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Oral histories. Internet videos. Internet videos. Interviews. Oral histories.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11337297

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Donald V. Watkins Donald V. Watkins
Other authors / contributors:	Watkins, Donald, interviewee. Gines, Denise, interviewer. Stearns, Scott, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Scott Stearns. Denise Gines, interviewer. Recorded Birmingham, Alabama 2017 May 01. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Entrepreneur and banker Donald V. Watkins was born on September 8, 1948 in Parsons, Kansas. He received his B.S. degree in 1970 from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. He received his J.D. degree in 1973 from the University of Alabama School of Law, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and joined the law office of Fred B. Gray, in Montgomery, Alabama. Watkins opened his own law office in Birmingham, Alabama in 1979. He became the youngest person ever elected to the Birmingham City Council in 1979, serving as a member until 1983. He worked for Birmingham city government as special counsel to the Mayor of Birmingham from 1985 to 1999. Watkins co-founded Alamerica Bank, a state-chartered bank headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama in 2000. He co-founded Nabirm Energy Services (Pty) Ltd. in Windhoek, Namibia, a principal shareholder, he serves on the board, 2002. Watkins serves as Chairman and CEO of Masada Resource Group, LLC, a global waste-to-ethanol/diesel fuel development company, with waste-to-energy projects in forty-seven countries across four continents, 2011.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (7 video files (2 hr., 37 min., 42 sec.)) : sound, color. 023742
Playing Time:	02:37:42
Production Credits:	Videographer, Scott Stearns.