The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Jerry A. Moore, Jr.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 19 min.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:Moore, Jerry, -- 1918- -- Interviews.
Moore, Jerry, -- 1918-
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/11318252
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Reverend Jerry A. Moore, Jr.
Reverend Jerry A. Moore, Jr.
Other authors / contributors:Moore, Jerry, 1918- interviewee.
Sims-Wood, Janet L., 1945- 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.
Janet Sims-Wood, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2007 April 27.
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Summary:City council member and association chief executive Reverend Jerry A. Moore, Jr. was born on June 12, 1918 in Minden, Louisiana. Moore graduated from Webster Parrish Training School in 1936 before receiving his B.A. degree from Morehouse College in 1940. Moore then earned his B.D. degree from Howard University in 1943. In 1946, Moore became pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. where he stayed until 1996. In 1957, Moore received his M.A. degree from Howard University, and became Baptist chaplain for the University. In 1969, Moore joined the Washington, D.C. City Council, serving as a member until 1984. In 1971, Moore co-founded the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO), an organization created to provide a forum for senior-level minority professionals in the transportation industry. In 1985, Moore became executive secretary for the Home Mission Board at NBC, serving until 1997. Moore received numerous awards including the NAACP Service Award.