The HistoryMakers video oral history with Marian Cullers.

Advertising executive Marian Cullers was born in 1927, in Webster Grove, Missouri. She graduated from Douglas High School then attended Lincoln University. She transferred to the University of Illinois at Champaign in 1945, where she graduated with her B.A. degree. In 1946, Cullers married Vince Cul...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: Cullers, Marian, 1927- (Interviewee)
Crowe, Larry F. (Interviewer)
Hickey, Matthew (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Subjects:
Cullers, Marian, > 1927- > Interviews.
African Americans > Interviews.
African Americans.
Advertising Executive.
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 (5 video files (2 hr., 24 min., 3 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Marian Cullers
Marian Cullers
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
Advertising executive Marian Cullers was born in 1927, in Webster Grove, Missouri. She graduated from Douglas High School then attended Lincoln University. She transferred to the University of Illinois at Champaign in 1945, where she graduated with her B.A. degree. In 1946, Cullers married Vince Cullers, a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute and apprentice at Kling Studios. In 1947, they opened an advertising art studio. After being rejected by mainstream agencies, they opened up their own Vince Cullers Advertising Agency, Inc., the first black advertising agency in the United States. Catering to the African American market, the agency's first national client was the Lorillard Tobacco Company, and they designed ads for their Newport cigarettes. They also did the Johnson Products Company's Afro-Sheen product line in 1968. Cullers was promoted to administrative vice president of the agency. In 2002, Cullers and her husband retired.
Call Number:E185.97
Playing Time:02:24:03
Credits:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Participant or Performer:
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Event Details:
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2010 May 28.
Source of Description:
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