The HistoryMakers, a Chicago-based organization that documents the life stories and accomplishments of African Americans across the country, is once again in Alaska to record interviews with prominent black Alaskans.
Producers with the HistoryMakers were previously here in 2018 and interviewed Alaskans such as Judge Larry Card, Anchorage attorney Rex Butler, the late Sen. Bettye Davis and others.
On this trip, Anchorage resident Eleanor Andrews is one of the interview subjects.
Andrews says she got started in Alaska in Fairbanks in the 1960s and found a lot of opportunity in the new state. She worked a wide range of jobs, including in juvenile corrections at the McLaughlin Youth Center in Anchorage, and then as a union contract negotiator. She says as the first female business representative for the IBEW, she was small, but mighty.
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