The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sherrilyn Ifill.
Nonprofit CEO and lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill was born in 1963 in New York, New York. She graduated from Vassar College with her B.A. degree in English in 1984. She went on to receive her J.D. degree from New York University School of Law in 1987. Ifill worked as assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Def...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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The HistoryMakers,
[2016]
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| Summary: | Nonprofit CEO and lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill was born in 1963 in New York, New York. She graduated from Vassar College with her B.A. degree in English in 1984. She went on to receive her J.D. degree from New York University School of Law in 1987. Ifill worked as assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund from 1988 to 1993. In 1993, she accepted a faculty position at the University of Maryland Francis King Cary School of Law. In 2007, Ifill published On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century. In 2012, she was chosen as President and Director-Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. A change agent, Ifill contributes to public discussion of civil rights on network news and National Public Radio. She served as the Board Chair of U.S. Programs for Open Society Foundations from 2011 to 2013. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 42 min., 35 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Playing Time: | 03:42:35 |
| Production Credits: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
| Access: | Access to electronic resources restricted to Simmons University students, faculty and staff. |