The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Eugene Sawyer.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 32 min., 16 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:Sawyer, Eugene -- Interviews.
Sawyer, Eugene.
African Americans -- Interviews.
African Americans.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11317869
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Eugene Sawyer
The Honorable Eugene Sawyer
Other authors / contributors:Sawyer, Eugene, 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 Chicago, Illinois 2003 January 29.
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Summary:Former Chicago Mayor Eugene Sawyer was born in Greensboro, Alabama, on September 3, 1934. He graduated from Alabama State University in Montgomery in 1956 with a B.S. degree in secondary education, and also served as security for Dr. Martin Luther King during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. After college, Sawyer taught high school mathematics and chemistry for one year in Prentiss, Mississippi, before moving to Chicago. In 1959, he began working for a South Side water filtration plant and joined the Democratic 6th Ward Organization, eventually becoming president. Sawyer served as alderman of the 6th Ward from 1971 until 1988. In 1987, after the unexpected death of Mayor Harold Washington, he was elected by the City Council to serve as acting mayor. Following his term as mayor, Sawyer partnered to form CEI International, a reseller of natural gas and other fuels. Sawyer passed away on January 19, 2008, at age 73.