The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Frank Smith

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Frank Smith

12/13/2004

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2004.257

Civil rights activist, cultural heritage chief executive, and city council member Frank Smith (1942 - ) is a founding member of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and has served on D.C. City Council. Smith is the founder and director of the African American Civil War Memorial. During his tenure on the Council, Smith supported legislation creating subsidies for housing down payments, a lottery system for disposing of condemned and surplus housing and establishing tax incentives for new business development. Smith was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/13/2004, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 10m 52s

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Smith, Frank, Jr., 1942-

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Commentator, civil rights activist, politician, and speaker Frank Smith, Jr. was born on September 17, 1942, in Newnan, Georgia. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a farmer and truck driver. In 1959, Smith earned his high school diploma from Central High School, where he was a member of the New Farmers of America as well as the debate team, choir and drama club.From 1959 until 1962, Smith attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he was a founding member of the Student Non-Violent ...