The HistoryMakers video oral history with Tyrone Taborn.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 13 min., 59 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:Taborn, Tyrone, -- 1959- -- Interviews.
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/11336902
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Tyrone Taborn
Tyrone Taborn
Other authors / contributors:Taborn, Tyrone, 1959- interviewee.
Butler, Cheryl B. (Cheryl Blanche), 1967- 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.
Cheryl Butler, interviewer.
Recorded Reisterstown, Maryland 2007 July 28.
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Summary:Publisher and civic leader Tyrone Taborn was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 8, 1959. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, graduating from University High School. He attended Cornell University, where he was a member of the secret honor society Quill and Dagger and was one of thirty-two academic scholars with membership to the Telluride Association. In 1986, Taborn founded and became the Chairman and CEO of Career Communications Group, Inc. He produced the award-winning syndicated TV show, Success Through Education. In 2006, Taborn was a contributing author for The Covenant With Black America, The New York Times bestseller compiled by Tavis Smiley. He was a frequent contributor for the Baltimore Sun. Taborn was the founder of Black Family Technology Week, La Familia Technology Awareness Week, and the Native American Technology Awareness Project. Taborn was the editor-in-chief of Hispanic Engineer and Information.