The HistoryMakers video oral history with Alfred Brothers, Jr.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 32 min.)) : 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/11312582
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Alfred Brothers, Jr.
Alfred Brothers, Jr.
Other authors / contributors:Brothers, Alfred, 1942- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., 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.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Fort Wayne, Indiana 2002 July 30.
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Summary:Engineer and airplane pilot Alfred Brothers was born on December 14, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston University in 1964 with his B. S. degree in engineering and went on to join the United States Air Force. In 1972, he served in the foreign technology division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Brothers was the wing commander of Wright State University's Air Force ROTC and worked to increase graduation rates. He retired from the Air Force in 1986, moving to Fort Wayne, Indiana, to work at the Raytheon Company. He was promoted from engineer to program manager. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in business administration from Century University, at age sixty. Brothers was an active volunteer with the Boy Scouts of America and a board member of the African/African American Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana.