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41. Interview of Joan Ling

Topic:
Social Movements
Community Activism
Length:
2 hrs. 45 min.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The series documents affordable housing activism in the Los Angeles area with particular attention to the work of community development corporations. Additional interviews document the work of social justice activists whose work concerns both the low income housing crisis in the city as well as ...
Biographical Note:
Executive director of the Community Corporation of Santa Monica and treasurer of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles. UCLA lecturer in the Department of Urban Planning.

42. Interview of Harry Hay

Topic:
Social Movements
LGBT Movement
Length:
17.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Founder of the Mattachine Society, an early gay rights organization and Radical Faeries, a gay spiritual movement.

43. Interview of Paul Schrade

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Length:
15.4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Director of the western region of the United Automobile Workers and advisor to Robert Kennedy.

44. Interview of Ben Dobbs

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Labor Movement
Length:
14.6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Labor organizer and executive committee member of the Southern California chapter of the Communist Party.

45. Interview of Douglas A. Martin

Topic:
Social Movements
UCLA and University of California History
Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement
UCLA Administration
Length:
8.2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Co-founder and executive director of the Westside Center for Independent Living and disability services coordinator for the city of Culver City. Special assistant to the chancellor and ADA/504 compliance officer at UCLA.

46. Interview of Ben Margolis

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Civil Liberties
Sleepy Lagoon Case
Length:
24 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:

47. Interview of Victoria A. Fromkin

Topic:
Social Movements
UCLA and University of California History
Communist Party
UCLA Faculty
UCLA Administration
Length:
13.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA vice chancellor of graduate programs and professor of linguistics. Activist and member of the Communist Party.

48. Interview of Stanley K. Sheinbaum

Topic:
Social Movements
Civil Liberties
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Human rights activist and member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Advisory Council. Organizer of the Daniel Ellsberg Pentagon Papers defense team and president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners.

50. Interview of Dorothy Green

Topic:
Social Movements
Environmental Movement
Length:
12 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The series documents environmental activism in the Los Angeles area from the 1970s through to the present day. The majority of interviews are with either founders or knowledgeable participants in major regional environmental organizations. Represented groups embody a wide range of issues, includi...
Biographical Note:
Founder of Heal the Bay, Unpave LA, and the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council. Involved in California Water Impact Network (C-WIN).