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1. Interview of Gil Bernal

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
African American History
Music
Length:
4.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Biographical Note:
Jazz tenor saxophone player, vocalist, and bandleader.

2. Interview of Cecil McNeely

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
1.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Biographical Note:
Jazz saxophone player.

3. Interview of Alonzo Davis

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
11.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African American Artists of Los Angeles document significant African American Artists and others in the Los Angeles metropolitan area who have worked to expand exhibition opportunities and public support for African American visual culture. The series was made possibl...
Biographical Note:
African American artist. Co-founder of the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles.

4. Interview of Frank Whitley

Topic:
African American History
Community History
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series Allensworth Community feature recollections of the descendants of Allensworth (California) residents and founders. The town was established in 1908 by Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth (1842-1914), at that time the highest-ranking African American officer in histor...

5. Interview of Leroy McKey

Topic:
African American History
Community History
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series Allensworth Community feature recollections of the descendants of Allensworth (California) residents and founders. The town was established in 1908 by Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth (1842-1914), at that time the highest-ranking African American officer in histor...

6. Interview of Thomas Bradley (1984)

Topic:
Politics and Government
African American History
Length:
9.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Mayor of Los Angeles from 1973 to 1993.

7. Interview of Ruth J. Temple

Topic:
African American History
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Physician and co-founder of the Temple Health Institute, a community-based health clinic.

8. Interview of Robert Singleton

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
African American History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
11 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series include individuals who were instrumental in creating and guiding the Center for African American Studies at UCLA to a position of widely recognized excellence among the nation's African American studies departments, centers, and institutes.
Biographical Note:
UCLA assistant professor of labor economics and founding director of the UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies. Later professor of economics at Loyola Marymount University.

9. Interview of Don Preston

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
6.15 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series extend the UCLA Oral History Program's "Central Avenue Sounds" series and preserve the spoken memories of musicians who were active in the jazz music scene in Los Angeles from the 1950s to the 1970s. This series includes a broad range of interviewees, some of whom are we...
Biographical Note:
Jazz keyboardist.

10. Interview of Pat Tobin

Topic:
African American History
Film and Television
Length:
10.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African Americans in Entertainment and Media are designed to document African Americans in television, radio, theater and film and aims to better understand how they overcame bias and discrimination and were trailblazers who opened doors for other African Americans in...
Biographical Note:
Publicist and press officer. Founder and president of public relations firm, Tobin & Associates, Inc.