The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Xernona Clayton

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Xernona Clayton

6/22/2005; 2/21/2014

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2005.143

Foundation chief executive, broadcast executive, and television host Xernona Clayton (1930 - ) was the founder of the Trumpet Awards, and the first black woman in the South to host a regularly scheduled prime-time talk show, Variations, which became The Xernona Clayton Show on WAGA-TV. Clayton was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/22/2005 and 2/21/2014, in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 46m 26s

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Clayton, Xernona

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Broadcast executive, foundation chief executive, nonprofit executive, television host, and television producer Xernona Clayton and her twin sister, Xenobia, were born August 30, 1930 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Clayton's parents, Reverend James M. and Lillie Brewster, were actively engaged in the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Muskogee. In 1952, Clayton earned her B.A. degree from Tennessee State Agricultural and Industrial College, now Tennessee State University. She later earned a scholarship and purs...