Oral Histories

Limit your search

more Topic »

Search

Search Results

1. 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).

2. Interview of Sondra Hale

Topic:
Social Movements
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Faculty
Women's Issues
Length:
11.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
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...
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of anthropology, chair of gender studies, co-chair of Islamic studies, and co-director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies. Co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.

3. Interview of Félix Gutiérrez

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Chicano Movement
Length:
9.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in this series document the ideological transformation of the Chicana and Chicano generation in Los Angeles. Dissatisfied with their position in U.S. society, Chicana and Chicano activists built a civil rights movement from the ground up. Interviewees were selected based on their e...
Biographical Note:
University of Southern California professor of journalism and communication. University of Southern California professor of american studies and ethnicity. First executive director of the California Chicano News Media Association and senior vice president of the Freedom Forum and the Newseum.

4. Interview of Edward Lewis

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Film and Television
Length:
4.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the recollections of selected individuals in Los Angeles who were affected by the Hollywood blacklist during the Joseph R. McCarthy-J. Edgar Hoover era.
Biographical Note:
Film and television producer. Known for breaking the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist with the production of Spartacus.

5. Interview of Alberto Juarez

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This is a series of interviews with people who were involved with the High Potential Program (HPP) at UCLA between 1968 and 1971. Although the HPP was one of the earliest efforts to broaden admissions criteria and recruit historically underrepresented students, the archival sources that have been...
Biographical Note:
UCLA student activist and recruiter for the High Potential Program.

6. Interview of Harold Minovitz

Topic:
Community History
Length:
1 hr.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
In 1980, the late Eugene Fingerhut, a congregant at the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center (PJTC) and a professor of American history at California State University, Los Angeles began interviewing elderly congregants with a focus on the history of the Pasadena Jewish community prior to World War I...
Biographical Note:
Congregant of the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center.

7. Interview of Jane Acem

Topic:
Social Movements
Environmental Illness
Length:
3.5 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
Biographical Note:
Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Developed MCS after workplace exposure. Patient advocate.

8. Interview of Megan LeGresley

Topic:
Social Movements
Environmental Illness
Length:
.75 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
Biographical Note:
Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Lives with Lyme Disease and experiences chemical sensitivities. UCLA student. Advocate for people living with for Lyme Disease and chronic illnesses, and activist for ...

9. Interview of Jennie Sherwin

Topic:
Social Movements
Environmental Illness
Length:
1.5 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness is a collection of interviews with over seventy individuals living in the U.S. and Canada whose family history, occupation, art practice, or activism have brought them into direct contact with illness experience and disability relate...
Biographical Note:
Interviewed for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women’s Chemical Entanglements: Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Author of "Intentional Healing: One Woman's Path to Higher Consciousness and Freedom from Environmental and Other Chronic Illnesses." Experiences Multiple Chemical Sens...

10. Interview of Robert Farrell

Topic:
African American History
Politics and Government
Length:
14 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series includes interviews with African Americans who were involved in Los Angeles politics from the 1940s to the present day. In addition to African American politicians, it includes individuals who could speak to the political history and influence of the black community in Los Angeles. Th...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1974 to 1991.