Who is et williams

Williams recalls his transition from the Peace Corps to a banking career E. Williams recalls advocating for African Americans as a banker E.

Williams remembers attending the March on Washington E. Williams describes his career at Chase Manhattan Bank E. Williams considers his impact on the diversity of Chase Manhattan Bank E.

Williams recalls being asked to develop a housing cooperative at Fordham Hill. Tape: 4 E. Williams describes the success of the Fordham Hill housing cooperative E. Williams talks about his properties E. Williams describes his art collection E. Williams remembers acquiring Hale Woodruff's estate E. Williams talks about leading African American artists and collectors E. Williams talks about the art he acquired abroad E. Williams describes his organizational memberships E. Tape: 5 E. Williams remembers Brooke Astor E.

Williams talks about the real estate market in New York City E. Williams talks about his involvement in the Museum of Modern Art E. Williams talks about the exclusion of African American art from majority museums E. Williams talks about outsider art E. Williams recalls being excluded from The Baltimore Sun society pages E.

Williams describes his experiences of housing discrimination E. Williams reflects upon racial discrimination and class E. Williams describes his involvement in social clubs.

Tape: 6 E. Williams talks about his mentor, David Rockefeller E. Williams reflects upon his real estate legacy E. Williams reflects upon his life E. Williams reflects upon his legacy in the art world E. He continued to paint wherever he touched down.

Though self-taught as a painter, he became knowledgeable about modern and contemporary art through visits to museums, galleries, and studios. Williams and his wife, Auldlyn, have collected African-American art for more than 50 years. After a successful career as a banker, Mr. Williams made his fortune in the mids with the conversion of Fordham Hill, a Bronx apartment complex with more than 1, units, into the largest privately financed, tenant-sponsored cooperative housing development in the history of New York City.

Williams said at the time. He retired from real estate in Legal Defense Fund, and many other nonprofits. He not only continued to collect art, he also took up the cause of black artists he believed in, among them Hale Woodruff, Thornton Dial, and Mr.

He met the latter when the painter lived in Sag Harbor, and he bought one of his paintings for his winter home in Naples, Fla. Some years later, Mr. Lawrence, that the painter had returned to Chicago. Seigler had all of his work in storage and asked if Mr.

Williams could contact the painter about its disposition. In order to gauge interest in the work, Mr. Williams moved several large paintings into his house and invited Terrie Sultan and Alicia Longwell from the Parrish Art Museum to see them.

They asked if he would donate three to the museum, and Dale Mason Cochran, the widow of the attorney Johnnie Cochran, wanted to buy several pieces for her Sag Harbor house.

At that point he contacted Mr. Brooklyn Historical Society. Brooklyn Old-Timers Foundation Inc. The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. Central Park Conservancy. Church of Intercession. Episcopal Church Center. Gracie Mansion Conservancy. Guggenheim Museum. Harlem School of the Arts. Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Landscape Management and Restoration. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Museum of Modern Art. Museum Trustee Association. National Black Theatre. National Building Museum. National Hypertension Association. The Nature Conservancy.

The Negro Ensemble Company. New York Botanical Garden. New York City Mission Society. New York Foundation for Senior Citizens. New York Urban League. Phelps-Stokes Fund. Printmaking Workshop. Protestant Episcopal Church. Romare Bearden Foundation. Paul's College. Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. South Street Seaport Museum. Studio Museum in Harlem.

United Negro College Fund. Woodlawn Cemetery. Real Estate and Investment. Dark Harbor, Maine. Double Eagle Explorations. Dunbar Apartments. Edgar T. Williams Real Estate and Insurance. Electric Transportation Systems Inc. Azurest Property Owners Corp. Bank of New York. Freedom National Bank. Marine Midland Bank. National Cooperative Bank. Board of Directors. Certificate of Incorproation.

Community Board 7. Williams' Rolodex and Business Cards. Department of Motor Vehicles. Department of Sanitation. Credit Information. Department of Finance.

Finance Committee. Investors Analysis.