The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Edward Perkins

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Edward Perkins

11/1/2017; 3/21/2018

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2017.194

Ambassador Edward Perkins (1928 - ) served as the ambassador of Liberia, South Africa, Australia, and the United Nations. Perkins was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 11/1/2017 and 3/21/2018, in Washington, D.C., D.C. and Washington, DC. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 21; Total Run Time: 09h 35m 46s

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Perkins, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1928-

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Ambassador Edward Perkins was born on June 8, 1928 in Sterlington, Louisiana to Edward Joseph Perkins Sr. and Tiny Estella Noble Holmes. Raised by his maternal grandparents, Nathan Noble and Sarah Stovall, in Louisiana, Perkins moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, at the age of fourteen to attend high school. He moved to Portland, Oregon in 1947, where he graduated from Jefferson High School. In 1947, Perkins joined the U.S. army and was stationed in Korea and Japan. Perkins served four years with Mar...