| Other author/creator | Curry, George E., interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title |
History Makers video oral history with George Curry |
| Portion of title |
George Curry |
| Abstract |
Journalist George Edward Curry was born on February 23, 1947, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Curry attended Knoxville College. From 1970 until 1972, he worked as a reporter for Sports Illustrated magazine. He was then a beat reporter for The St. Louis Post Dispatch. In 1977, he founded the St. Louis Minority Journalism Workshop, a training program for aspiring high school journalists. That year, he wrote his first book Jake Gaither: America's Most Famous Black Coach. From 1983 until 1989, Curry worked for the Chicago Tribune. From 1989 until 1993, he worked as the New York bureau chief of the Tribune. Curry then served as editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine. In 2003, he became editor-in-chief for BlackPressUSA.com and the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service or NNPA, until he resigned in 2007. Curry passed away on August 20, 2016 at age 69. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer |
Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2004 September 27. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2004.182 HistoryMakers |
