Mr. Edgar Anderson on Education
- Title:
- Mr. Edgar Anderson on Education
- Creator:
- Edgar Anderson; Amber Panzella
- Date Created:
- 2001-06-06
- Description:
- Edgar Anderson was born in Chicago in 1950, the second-oldest of six children. On his mother’s side, he has black, German, and Cree Native American ancestry; on his father’s side, he is descended from sharecroppers and former slaves from Mississippi. He attended high school in Chicago, and then went to the Military Academy at West Point in 1968, where he was one of ten black cadets in his class of 1200. He spent time in the Army as a basic training officer, and then received a graduate degree from Yale in business management and human resources. He moved to Portland, Maine, in 1985. He has one son from his first marriage, and two children from his second; at the time of this interview he also had three grandchildren. At the time of this interview, he worked in human resources for UPS. He served as the vice president of the NAACP New England Area Conference, as well as serving on the Portland NAACP’s executive committee.
- Subjects:
- Education Family
- Location:
- Portland, ME
- Latitude:
- 43.65830234
- Longitude:
- -70.25811361
- Source:
- University of Southern Maine, Panzella, Amber, and Anderson, Edgar (2001). Home Is Where I Make It Oral History Project. 1.
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Digital Commons URL:
- https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/aa_hiwimi/1/
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Mr. Edgar Anderson on Education", We Exist Series 5, Digital Projects - University of Southern Maine Libraries & Learning
- Reference Link:
- acg-floating-204-197-4-76.acg.maine.edu/weexist5/items/we5_056.html
Rights
- Rights:
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/