The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Marvin Pratt.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (11 video files (4 hr., 48 min., 27 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Pratt, Marvin -- 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/11313219

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Marvin Pratt The Honorable Marvin Pratt
Other authors / contributors:	Pratt, Marvin, interviewee. Crowe, Larry, 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 Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2017 February 20. Recorded Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2017 February 24. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Mayor and alderman Marvin Pratt was born on May 26, 1944 in Dallas, Texas. He moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1959 and attended North Division High School. After graduation, Pratt enlisted in the United States Air Force for three years, when he was honorably discharged. After leaving the Air Force, Pratt enrolled at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, receiving his undergraduate degree in 1972. Pratt began his political career as an intern for Mayor Henry Maier, and was elected to the Common Council as alderman in 1986. In 2000, Pratt served as the president of the Common Council until he was appointed as acting mayor in 2004, making him the first African American in the position of mayor in Milwaukee. In 2011, Pratt was elected as the interim Milwaukee County Executive for a three months. In 2016, Milwaukee Public Schools named one of their elementary schools in his honor.

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