This project is designed to document the lives of Negro League baseball players whose careers spanned the heyday of the league (1920s-1950s) and who grew up in Southern California, who played in the West Coast Professional Baseball League or the California Winter League, or who eventually migrate...
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Member of the American Negro League. Shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs.
This project is designed to document the lives of Negro League baseball players whose careers spanned the heyday of the league (1920s-1950s) and who grew up in Southern California, who played in the West Coast Professional Baseball League or the California Winter League, or who eventually migrate...
This project is designed to document the lives of Negro League baseball players whose careers spanned the heyday of the league (1920s-1950s) and who grew up in Southern California, who played in the West Coast Professional Baseball League or the California Winter League, or who eventually migrate...
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Member of the American Negro League. Player for the Indianapolis Clowns.
Interviews in this series were conducted with filmmakers and artists in the area of feminist media and art of the seventies in Los Angeles.
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Feminist film director known for The Student Nurses(1970) and The Velvet Vampire(1971) for New World Pictures. Co-founder of Dimension Pictures , making Group Marriage (1973), Terminal Island (1973), The Working Girls (1974).
Interviews in this series were conducted with filmmakers and artists in the area of feminist media and art of the seventies in Los Angeles.
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Visual and performance artist. Trained at the Feminist Studio Workshop at the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles. Co-founder of Feminist Art Workers, and Sisters of Survival.
This series includes interviews with several members of the Los Angeles Newsreel Collective, a group active between 1968 and 1971 that was modeled on the Workers’ Film and Photo League. The group's aim was to exhibit films with a radical leftist point of view to a wide range of audiences.
Interviews in this series were conducted with filmmakers and artists in the area of feminist media and art of the seventies in Los Angeles.
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Innovator of a documentary form combining subjectivity, ethnography and expressionism, working frequently in Mexico. Founder of Canyon CinemaNews. Professor of film at Occidental college.
This series includes interviews with several members of the Los Angeles Newsreel Collective, a group active between 1968 and 1971 that was modeled on the Workers’ Film and Photo League. The group's aim was to exhibit films with a radical leftist point of view to a wide range of audiences.
This series includes interviews with several members of the Los Angeles Newsreel Collective, a group active between 1968 and 1971 that was modeled on the Workers’ Film and Photo League. The group's aim was to exhibit films with a radical leftist point of view to a wide range of audiences.
Women’s Activist Lives in Los Angeles is a series of interviews done by graduate research assistants under the auspices of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. The series addresses the diverse ways in which women’s social movement activities affected public policy and transformed civic institut...
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LGBTQ activist and board member of the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
The Community-Engaged Theater in Los Angeles series seeks to document the work of a grouping of theater companies in Los Angeles whose mission combines an artistic focus with explicit attention to social justice and community building. The companies included use a working method that seeks creati...
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Associate director of the performance group and non-profit arts organization, the Los Angeles Poverty Department.
The Community-Engaged Theater in Los Angeles series seeks to document the work of a grouping of theater companies in Los Angeles whose mission combines an artistic focus with explicit attention to social justice and community building. The companies included use a working method that seeks creati...
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Founding artistic director of the performance group and non-profit arts organization the Los Angeles Poverty Department.
The Community-Engaged Theater in Los Angeles series seeks to document the work of a grouping of theater companies in Los Angeles whose mission combines an artistic focus with explicit attention to social justice and community building. The companies included use a working method that seeks creati...
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Member of the Cornerstone Theater Company ensemble. Puppeteer and costume and set designer.
Women’s Activist Lives in Los Angeles is a series of interviews done by graduate research assistants under the auspices of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. The series addresses the diverse ways in which women’s social movement activities affected public policy and transformed civic institut...
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UCLA professor of anthropology. Activist for LGBTQ rights and labor unionization.
Women’s Activist Lives in Los Angeles is a series of interviews done by graduate research assistants under the auspices of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. The series addresses the diverse ways in which women’s social movement activities affected public policy and transformed civic institut...
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Co-founder and executive director of Project Peacemakers, Inc., which provides support for those escaping domestic abuse. Executive director of the Jenesse Center, which helps African American women who have been abused.
Researcher for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) an agency of the government that develops technology for the military. Engineer for SRI International, nonprofit scientific research institute and organization.
This series of interviews documents the work of costumers in the film and television industries in Los Angeles. The interviews preserve a dimension of Hollywood history and Los Angeles history that has been under-documented to date.
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Textile artist and owner of A Dyeing Art, a textile art studio established in 1984.
Program manager and office director for the ARPANET project, which developed an experimental computer network, a precursor to the internet. Engineer and founder of Telenet, a packet data communications carrier.
Researcher for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) an agency of the government that develops technology for the military. Vice-president of engineering at the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science and Technology Office, an agency of the government that develops technology for the military. University of Southern California professor of software engineering.
Member of Project Mac, a time-sharing systems project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the government that develops technology for the military.
Inventor of ALOHAnet, a project that created a wireless radio packet switched network which was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) an agency of the government that develops technology for the military.
Member of the ARPANET project, which developed an experimental computer network, a precursor to the internet. Director of the Stanford Computation Center and co-founder of IntelliCorp and Teknowledge.
Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) an agency of the government that develops technology for the military during a time of expansion of the ARPANET project, which developed an experimental computer network, a precursor to the internet.
Research manager for the ARPANET project, which developed an experimental computer network, a precursor to the internet. Co-founder of GTE Telenet, an early packet switch service company.
Researcher for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), an agency of the government that develops technology for the military. UCLA adjunct professor of computer science.
Member of the ARPANET project, which developed an experimental computer network, a precursor to the internet. Member of the Internet Working Group (IWG), which developed TCP/IP.