The HistoryMakers video oral history with Crain Woods.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (3 video files (1 hr., 5 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Woods, Crain, -- 1932- -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Format:	Video E-Resource Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11336553

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Crain Woods Crain Woods
Other authors / contributors:	Woods, Crain, 1932- interviewee. Crowe, Larry F., 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 Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 2002 December 5. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	City administrator and educator Crain Woods was born in Due West, South Carolina on December 14, 1932. After earning his B.S. degree from Benedict College in 1957, Woods began teaching in 1959. He returned to school to earn his M.S. degree in education, completing his degree in 1970. In 1994, Woods was elected to the Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, City Council, where he served until 2002. He remained active with the local government, serving on several committees, including the Myrtle Beach Housing Authority and the Convention Center Hotel Corporation Committee. He also served with the Horry County chapter of the American Red Cross for more than twenty-five years and later served as chairman of the organization. Woods was also a charter member and served on the board of the Children's Museum of South Carolina. Woods and his wife, Julia, were married in 1959. They had one daughter.

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