The HistoryMakers video oral history with Andrew Heidelberg
Andrew I. Heidelberg (Interviewee), Larry F. Crowe (Interviewer), Matthew Hickey, HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Banker and civic leader Andrew Heidelberg was born on November 6, 1943 in Norfolk, Virginia. A member of the "Norfolk 17," in 1957, a federal judge ordered Norfolk schools to desegregate. Heidelberg was one of seventeen students who began integration in Virginia by attending Norview High School in 1959. In 1961, Heidelberg made the football team and was the first African American to play varsity football at a previously all-white public school in in the South. In 1967, he entered the banking industry in Providence, Rhode Island and later served as Assistant Treasurer and Chief Deputy Treasurer for the City of Hampton, Virginia in 2003. Heidelberg graduated from Norfolk State University with his B.S. degree in interdisciplinary studies in 2001. He published his story in 2006, The Norfolk 17: A Personal Narrative on Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia in 1958-1962. Heidelberg passed away on July 6, 2015 at age 71
Online Video, English, 2016
The HistoryMakers, Chicago, Illinois, 2016