Details

Subject(s)

• Brown, Tyrone 1942-—Interviews [Browse]
• African Americans—Interviews [Browse]

Interviewee

• Brown, Tyrone, 1942- [Browse]

Interviewer

• Crowe, Larry F. [Browse]

Director of photography

• Hickey, Matthew [Browse]

Production company

• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Oral histories [Browse]
• Internet videos [Browse]
• Nonfiction films [Browse]

Summary note

Communications attorney and broadcasting executive Tyrone Brown was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on November 5, 1942. Brown received his A.B. degree in 1964 from Hamilton College in New York; and his L.L.B. degree from Cornell University Law School in 1967. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Brown to the Federal Communications Commission to succeed Benjamin Hooks, who was the first African-American FCC commissioner. Brown served on the FCC for three years before stepping down in 1981. He returned to private practice law with Steptoe and Johnson and Wiley Rein, LLP. Brown was also a visiting professor at Duke University where he taught journalism. He headed the Media Access Project, a non-profit communications advocacy organization. In 2009, he was a founding member and vice chairman of the board for IRIDIUM Satellite LLC. Brown also teamed with investors to launch the Black Heritage Network, a cable and satellite network featuring African American television programming.

Creation/​Production credits

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Time and place of event

Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2012 March 6.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Participant(s)/​Performer(s)

Larry Crowe, interviewer.

Other title(s)

• History Makers video oral history with Tyrone Brown
• Tyrone Brown

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