The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lawrence Pijeaux.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 10 min., 44 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:Pijeaux, Lawrence -- 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/11313215
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Lawrence Pijeaux
Lawrence Pijeaux
Other authors / contributors:Pijeaux, Lawrence, 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 03.
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Summary:High school principal, president and CEO Lawrence Pijeaux was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1944. He graduated from a segregated school in New Orleans in 1962. Afterward, he went on to attend Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to receive his B.S. degree. He later received his M.A. degree in teaching from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and his Ed.D. degree from the Southern University of Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. After graduation, he worked for almost twenty years as principal of L.B. Landry Magnet School. In 1995, he was named president and CEO of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, where he served for nineteen years. Pijeaux also served on a variety of boards for museums, including the Association of African American Museums. He was named one of ten American Heroes of education by Reader's Digest in 1989, and was inducted into the Alabama Hall of Fame in 2015.