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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Charles Yancey
The Honorable Charles Yancey
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| Other authors / contributors: | Yancey, Charles, 1948- interviewee.
Hayden, Robert C., interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Robert Hayden, interviewer.
Recorded Dorchester, Massachusetts 2006 February 7.
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2006 April 6.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | City administrator and labor leader Charles Calvin Yancey was born on December 28, 1948 - the sixth of nine children of Howell Yancey, Sr. and Alice W. Yancey. He graduated from Boston Technical High School in 1965. Yancey received his B.S. degree in economics from Tufts University in 1970 and his M.A. degree in public administration from Harvard University in 1991. First elected to Boston's City Council in 1983, he served for twenty-three years. Yancey championed equal employment opportunities for "people of color" in Boston's city government and was a constant force to improve educational resources for public schools. He held an annual book fair that provided over 100,000 free books for Boston children since its inception in February 1987. Yancey also served as president of the Boston City Council in 2001 and the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials in 1999.
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