California Afro-American Oral History Project transcripts

1967-1979

Oral history interviews conducted with Afro-Americans who helped shape the history of California in this century. Interview series were done on subjects of importance to California history, both governmental and social. Interviews provide information about the subject's personal life, struggle to overcome discrimination, achievement in public service, business, or professional life, and his or her unique contribution to the topic which the series addresses. Oral history interviews conducted with Frances Mary Albrier, A. Wayne Amerson, Julian Bagley, Odessa Cox, E. A. Daly, C. L. Dellums, Walter Gordon, Ira deVoyd Hall, Jr., Tarea Hall Pittman, Wilson Riles, and William Byron Rumford. Topics include labor, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, education, civil rights, the Virgin Islands, journalists, legislators, and housing.