- Creator
- California Afro-American Oral History Project
- Call number
- Sc MG 294
- Physical description
- 12 vols
- Preferred Citation
- [Item], California Afro-American Oral History Project transcripts, Sc MG 294, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
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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.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Oral history interviews: Purchase, Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley, 1986
Key terms
Names
- Albrier, Frances Mary, 1898-1987
- Amerson, A. Wayne, 1905-
- Bagley, Julian, 1892-1981
- Cox, Odessa
- Daly, E. A.
- Dellums, C. L. (Cottrell Laurence)
- Hall, Ira deVoyd
- Pittman, Tarea Hall
- Riles, Wilson
- Rumford, William Byron, 1908-
Subjects
- African American businesspeople -- California
- African American journalists
- African American legislators
- African American politicians -- California
- African American women -- California
- African Americans -- California -- History
- African Americans -- Civil rights
- African Americans in the professions -- California
- Discrimination -- California
- Discrimination in employment -- California
- Discrimination in housing -- California
- Housing -- Law and legislation
Places
- California -- History
- California -- Politics and government
- California -- Social conditions
- United States Virgin Islands
Material types
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor