The HistoryMakers video oral history with Shirley Anne Massey.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 59 min., 36 sec.)) : 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/11318576
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Shirley Anne Massey
Shirley Anne Massey
Other authors / contributors:Massey, Shirley Anne, 1942- interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., 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.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2013 August 24.
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Summary:Civic leader Shirley Anne Massey was born on August 14, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois. She was the younger of two children born to parents, Anne Johnson and William Streeter. Massey attended Holy Cross Grammar School before graduating from Chicago Loretto Academy in 1960. She then enrolled in Chicago Teachers College where she studied education. In 1962, Massey was hired to work as an accountant at the Playboy club. Massey, the wife of Dr. Walter Massey, ninth president of Morehouse College and the president of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, served as the First Lady of Morehouse from 1995 to 2007. In 2012, the Executive Conference Center building on the campus of Morehouse was renamed as the Shirley A. Massey Executive Conference Center in her honor. She served as board member for the Chicago Foundation for Education and Women's Board of the Chicago Symphony, among others.