The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert Foster.

Government employee Robert Lee Foster was born in 1950, in Cashville, South Carolina, to sharecropper parents. Foster completed Woodruff High School and attended Greenville Business College before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1969, where he was hired as a file clerk and messenger boy in the office...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: Foster, Robert, 1950- (Interviewee)
Hayden, Robert C. (Interviewer)
Stearns, Scott (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Subjects:
Foster, Robert, > 1950- > Interviews.
African Americans > Interviews.
African Americans.
Federal Government Employee.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (The HistoryMakers)
Physical Description:1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 7 min., 17 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Robert Foster
Robert Foster
Format: Electronic Video
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Government employee Robert Lee Foster was born in 1950, in Cashville, South Carolina, to sharecropper parents. Foster completed Woodruff High School and attended Greenville Business College before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1969, where he was hired as a file clerk and messenger boy in the office of the Senate Commerce Committee. He held this position for approximately twelve years before being promoted to public information officer for the Commerce Committee. He then moved on to become the lead professional staffer, a position he held for over twenty years. From 1976 to 1996, Foster served as the commissioner of the U.S. Senate Softball League; and from 1980 to 1988, as sergeant-at-arms, vice president, and president of the U.S. Senate Staff Club. Foster retired from the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce in 2010 and was convicted on charges of wire fraud scheme in 2015.
Call Number:E185.97
Playing Time:03:07:17
Credits:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Participant or Performer:
Robert Hayden, interviewer.
Event Details:
Recorded Falls Church, Virginia 2006 November 8.
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