- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
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- 1 hr
- Language:
- English
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- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
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- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Tennis player who met Arthur Ashe as a child while attending Dr. Robert Walter Johnson’s summer tennis camp. Was the first African American tennis player to play in South Africa.
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- Topic:
- African American History
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series documents black women’s activism in Los Angeles from 1950 to the present, showing how women’s roles in the professions and in religious, civic, and social organizations translated into community activism to address disparities in education, healthcare, housing and political rights and...
- Biographical Note:
- Ordained Dean at Westminster Presbyterian and civic activist with the Harvard Heights Block Club, different civic committees, and the American Red Cross. Serves on various courts of the church Presbytery, Synod, General Council, and women's division. Vice President of the national United Presbyte...
- Topic:
- COVID-19 PandemicFilm and Television
- Length:
- 4.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series of interviews was undertaken in collaboration with the Art Directors Guild. Its aim is to document the lives and work of Guild members and staff who have made a significant contribution to film and television history. Interviews capture the work of title artists, set designers, art di...
- Biographical Note:
- Scenic artist working in film, television, and opera, and fine artist.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 3.5 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:
- Principal in DakeLuna Consultants, an urban design consulting group. Stream restoration specialist for Heal the Bay, founder of Urban Semillas, and creator of youth-oriented educational courses on watershed issues known as “Agua Universities."
- Topic:
- Chinese Studies
- Length:
- 5.5 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The past sixty years have been an important period in the development of Chinese studies in the U.S and Canada. Those years have seen increased funding from Title VI and other sources, the evolution of new fields and areas of specialization, and the systematization and professionalization of scho...
- Biographical Note:
- Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies and founding chair of the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota.
- Topic:
- Asian American History
- Length:
- 6 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews document the lives and contributions of Filipino-American activists in Los Angeles in the Filipino-American identity movement of the 1960s and ‘70s. This project was generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- Biographical Note:
- Filipino American activist. First co-chair of Kababayan at University of California, Irvine and member of the Union of Democratic Filipinos (KDP), a political party.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 3 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:
- Artist and environmental activist, executive director of 18th Street Arts Complex, and founding member of performance groups Earth Water Air Los Angeles (EWALA) and FrogWorks. Involved in protests against Playa Vista land development at the Ballona Wetlands.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 4 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. He was a lifelong close friend of Ashe. They met during childhood.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 0.5 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Hopkins is a childhood friend of Arthur Ashe’s family.
- Topic:
- Art
- Length:
- 1.75 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), founded in Los Angeles by Edith and Frank Wyle, grew out of The Egg and The Eye, a commercial art gallery/restaurant devoted to international contemporary craft and folk art—and (in the restaurant) omelettes. The gallery opened November 1, 1965 at 5814 Wilsh...
- Biographical Note:
- Furniture designer and woodworker. Craft and Folk Art Museum Board Member, 1986–1997.
- Topic:
- American Indian History
- Length:
- 1 hr.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in the series American Indian Relocation Project document the experience of American Indians who came to Los Angeles as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' urban relocation program in the 1950s and 1960s. The initial interviews were conducted by students in Professor Peter Nabok...
- Biographical Note:
- Ho-Chunk. Came to Los Angeles as part pf the American Indian Relocation.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 3 hrs.
- 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 Little Tokyo Service Center and founder of the Asian Pacific Community Fund.
- Topic:
- Film and Television
- Length:
- 2.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series of interviews was undertaken in collaboration with the Art Directors Guild. Its aim is to document the lives and work of Guild members and staff who have made a significant contribution to film and television history. Interviews capture the work of title artists, set designers, art di...
- Biographical Note:
- Production designer with credits that include Lost in Translation, Her, and Where the Wild Things Are.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.75 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. A childhood friend of Arthur Ashe who spent time in Dr. Walter Johnson’s tennis camp. As a journalist was at the center of Ashe’s disclosure of contracting AIDS.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1 hr
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Buchholz knew Arthur Ashe during his youth playing tennis.
- Length:
- 1.75 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. Chief Deputy of Administration at Asian Health Services and immigrant rights activist. Policy advocate for nail salon workforce.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 15 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:
- Journalist, photographer, and editor for La Raza, a Chicano-movement newspaper. Ran for office as a candidate of the first and only Mexican American political party, La Raza Unida Party.
- Topic:
- BusinessAfrican American History
- Length:
- 6.8 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Interviews in this series were made possible by support from the UCLA Center for African American Studies, Institute of American Cultures. This is the first of several Oral History Program series focusing on social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of African American citizens in the Lo...
- Biographical Note:
- Chief executive officer and chair of Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, one of the largest Black-owned insurance companies in the United States.
- Topic:
- Literature
- Length:
- 4 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Poet and essayist. Co-founder and editor of the literary journal Coastlines.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistoryCentral Americans in Southern California
- Length:
- 4 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Immigrant from Belize. Activist, writer, and leader in the Garifuna community. Founding member of the Garifuna American Heritage Foundation, a cultural center that offers classes and public programs that help maintain the Garifuna culture in Los Angeles.
- Topic:
- Film and Television
- Length:
- 2.75 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series of interviews was undertaken in collaboration with the Art Directors Guild. Its aim is to document the lives and work of Guild members and staff who have made a significant contribution to film and television history. Interviews capture the work of title artists, set designers, art di...
- Biographical Note:
- Art director and production designer. Known for Frasier, Wings, Murphy Brown, and Academy Awards, among many other productions.
- Topic:
- COVID-19 PandemicFilm and Television
- Length:
- 2.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series of interviews was undertaken in collaboration with the Art Directors Guild. Its aim is to document the lives and work of Guild members and staff who have made a significant contribution to film and television history. Interviews capture the work of title artists, set designers, art di...
- Biographical Note:
- Set designer with credits that include Comes a Horseman, Wild and Free (1978), and Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Part III (1999). Worked in Universal Studios art department.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.75 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Participated with Ashe in the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at UCLA from 1963 to 1967.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- .75 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. He is Deputy Secretary of the US Army and Chairman of the Panama Canal Commission. He attended West Point at the same time that Arthur Ashe came to serve his military commitment. Reeder was on West Point’s tennis team and Ashe coach...
- Topic:
- Chinese Studies
- Length:
- 5.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The past sixty years have been an important period in the development of Chinese studies in the U.S and Canada. Those years have seen increased funding from Title VI and other sources, the evolution of new fields and areas of specialization, and the systematization and professionalization of scho...
- Biographical Note:
- Pickowicz is an American historian of modern China and Distinguished Professor of History and Chinese Studies at University of California, San Diego.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyFilm and Television
- Length:
- 36 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:
- Novelist and screenwriter. One of the Hollywood Ten, who were imprisoned and blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
- Topic:
- Books and Fine Printing
- Length:
- 7.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Book artist and owner of Two Hands Press.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 2 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. First African American head pro of Longwood Cricket Club. Sims first met Arthur Ashe in 1972 during Ashe’s visit to MacGregor Park in Texas.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 9 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 Los Angeles Eco-Village. Executive director of Cooperative Resources and Services Project.
- Topic:
- Asian American HistoryBuddhism
- Length:
- 4 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The Many Branches, One Root series traces the histories and practices of a range of Buddhist traditions and communities in the greater Los Angeles area. Beginning in the early twentieth century, a succession of Buddhist traditions have put down roots in Los Angeles, each one providing spiritual s...
- Biographical Note:
- President of Koyasan Betsuin Shingon Buddhist Temple in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1.25 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. Chief of the Office of Viral Hepatitis Prevention for the California Department of Public Health.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.5 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Ashe was a family friend of the Hazzard family throughout his life.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental 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. Long term experience with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS).
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- 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. Linda Coco is an anthropologist and law professor who currently resides in Florida. Because of the lack of care and accommodations for her chemical sensitivities, she h...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental 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).
- Topic:
- Community HistorySocial MovementsCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 4.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The Narratives of Justice oral history series documents issues related to the criminal justice system in California through interviews with a variety of people who seek to reform that system. It includes interviews with individuals who provide services to at-risk youth; individuals engaged in com...
- Biographical Note:
- Founder and executive director of the Social Justice Learning Institute in Inglewood, California.
- Topic:
- American Indian History
- Length:
- 1.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in the series American Indian Relocation Project document the experience of American Indians who came to Los Angeles as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' urban relocation program in the 1950s and 1960s. The initial interviews were conducted by students in Professor Peter Nabok...
- Biographical Note:
- Cherokee. Came to Los Angeles as part of the American Indian Relocation.
- Topic:
- African American HistoryBusiness
- Length:
- 1.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series documents long-term and multigenerational business ownership in the black community through oral history interviews with owners of businesses located in Los Angeles County. The title is inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr.'s last book, Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community, whic...
- Biographical Note:
- Second-generation owner of Little Red Hen Coffee Shop in Altadena, California, which was established by Shay’s mother in 1972.
- Topic:
- Asian American HistoryBuddhism
- Length:
- 6.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The Many Branches, One Root series traces the histories and practices of a range of Buddhist traditions and communities in the greater Los Angeles area. Beginning in the early twentieth century, a succession of Buddhist traditions have put down roots in Los Angeles, each one providing spiritual s...
- Biographical Note:
- Ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1985. Visiting teacher at Thubten Dhargye Ling in Long Beach, California.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- 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. From Mexico, Clara Olmedo is an activist and civil engineer living in Woodland, California. She is a member of the Woodland Coalition Group. Olmedo uses the term of che...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 2 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. A man living in Sacramento, California, and a retired technology strategist. Chalmers is living with MCS and considers himself “an armchair activist.”
- Topic:
- Science, Medicine, and TechnologyUCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA Faculty
- Length:
- 9 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- UCLA faculty member in geophysics and research musicologist.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 7.5 hrs.
- 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:
- : Founding member of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker. Co-director of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker soup kitchen. Author of Broken and Shared: Food, Dignity and the Poor on Los Angeles' Skid Row.
- Topic:
- Film and Television
- Length:
- 2 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- 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.
- Biographical Note:
- Costume director for San Francisco Opera and L.A. Opera. Shop manager for Star Wars: Episode VI, Return of the Jedi.
- Topic:
- American Indian History
- Length:
- 3.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in the series American Indian Studies M200A Student Interviews were done by master's students in American Indians Studies M200A. Each student conducted a life history with one person of Native ancestry. The first year the class was offered, the interviews focused on the narrators' ...
- Biographical Note:
- Screenwriter, filmmaker, entrepreneur, financier, promotional speaker, and philanthropist of Cherokee and English descent.
- Topic:
- Politics and Government
- Length:
- 3.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series includes interviews with key individuals who served in Los Angeles city government during the administration of Mayor Tom Bradley. The interviews focus on each individual’s political development, activism, and role in the Bradley administration. Major urban policy issues addressed in ...
- Biographical Note:
- Chief administrative officer to Tom Bradley from 1971 to 1993. President of WLMoore & Associates.
- Topic:
- Asian American History
- Length:
- 5.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The Suburban Chinatown series focuses on political and business leaders in the San Gabriel Valley who came to the U.S. in the post-1965 wave of Asian immigration after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 abolished the quota system based on national origins. The series was undertaken as a ...
- Biographical Note:
- Immigrant from Taiwan. Librarian for the Los Angeles Unified School District and chair of the Performing Arts Foundation for Asian Americans.
- Topic:
- UCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA Research Centers and Programs
- Length:
- 3.5 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:
- California State University, Los Angeles, professor of child and family studies. During time at UCLA, was a student in the UCLA High Potential Program.
- Topic:
- Film and Television
- Length:
- 3.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series of interviews was undertaken in collaboration with the Art Directors Guild. Its aim is to document the lives and work of Guild members and staff who have made a significant contribution to film and television history. Interviews capture the work of title artists, set designers, art di...
- Biographical Note:
- Scenic artist at CBS Television City for over forty years; past president of Local 816, Scenic, Title, and Graphic Artists.
- Topic:
- Politics and Government
- Length:
- 1.4 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series includes interviews with key individuals who served in Los Angeles city government during the administration of Mayor Tom Bradley. The interviews focus on each individual’s political development, activism, and role in the Bradley administration. Major urban policy issues addressed in ...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Democratic National Committee. Advisor to Tom Bradley and Jerry Brown. Nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
- Topic:
- Science, Medicine, and TechnologyUCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA Research Centers and Programs
- Length:
- 2 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- 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.
- Topic:
- American Indian History
- Length:
- 2 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in the series American Indian Studies M200A Student Interviews were done by master's students in American Indians Studies M200A. Each student conducted a life history with one person of Native ancestry. The first year the class was offered, the interviews focused on the narrators' ...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Navajo Nation.
- Topic:
- Politics and Government
- Length:
- 3 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Interviews in this series were undertaken by the UCLA Oral History Program in conjunction with similar efforts at the University of California, Berkeley, Regional Oral History Office; Claremont Graduate School Oral History Program; California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program; and...
- Biographical Note:
- Brother of Ronald Reagan.
- Topic:
- American Indian History
- Length:
- 3 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in the series American Indian Relocation Project document the experience of American Indians who came to Los Angeles as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' urban relocation program in the 1950s and 1960s. The initial interviews were conducted by students in Professor Peter Nabok...
- Biographical Note:
- Caddo and Potawatomi. Came to Los Angeles as part of the American Indian Relocation.
- Topic:
- Community History
- Length:
- 5.5 hrs.
- 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.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.75 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Teammate of Ashe on the Charles Sumner High School boys team.
- Topic:
- Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Design
- Length:
- 9 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Immigrant from Greece and mid-century modern architect known for using prefabricated steel and aluminum in residential and commercial buildings.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 10 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:
- Founding member of the Brown Berets, and key organizer of the Chicano Blowouts. Became the second Latina member of the LA School Board.
- Topic:
- Film and Television
- Length:
- 5.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series of interviews was undertaken in collaboration with the Art Directors Guild. Its aim is to document the lives and work of Guild members and staff who have made a significant contribution to film and television history. Interviews capture the work of title artists, set designers, art di...
- Biographical Note:
- Production designer and art director. Received Academy Award for work on both Lincoln and Avatar. Other work includes A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Amistad, Forrest Gump, and Goonies.
- Topic:
- UCLA and University of California HistoryAsian American HistoryUCLA Research Centers and Programs
- Length:
- 3 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were undertaken with the intention of documenting the rise of Asian American studies at UCLA and the founding of the Asian American Studies Center. However, shortly after this series was begun, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center undertook its own oral history project to docum...
- Biographical Note:
- Los Angeles attorney. As a student at UCLA was involved in the drive for ethnic studies and the establishment of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- Length:
- 9 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:
- Founding member of the United Mexican American Students (UMAS) organization at California State University, Los Angeles. Chicano studies professor, helped implement Chicano studies program in higher education.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor Movement
- Length:
- 14 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series documents the Justice for Janitors movement in Los Angeles from the 1980s through the early 2000s. Justice for Janitors is a labor organization of the Service Employees International Union that has historically sought to improve the working conditions and bargaining power of workers ...
- Biographical Note:
- Organizer for the Service Employees International Union. One of the leaders of the union’s Justice for Janitors campaign.
- Topic:
- Asian American History
- Length:
- 5.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews document the lives and contributions of Filipino-American activists in Los Angeles in the Filipino-American identity movement of the 1960s and ‘70s. This project was generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- Biographical Note:
- Filipino American activist. Member of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles. Attorney for the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board and Department of Fair Employment and Housing.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1.75 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 Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Makeup artist, stylist, and activist in Canada. Creative director and board member at Fashion Takes Action. Cabinet memb...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- 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. Experiences Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Former social worker. Advocates for better understanding of MCS, as the myriad of physical and emotional symptoms assoc...
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.5 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Mentored Juan Farrow, a young player from Virginia, who was sent to St. Louis, Missouri to train with Richard Hudlin, Ashe’s former coach at Charles Sumner High School.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1.75 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 Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Canadian artist, whose artist books and sculptural works explore feminist and environmental themes as well as the experi...
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 10 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:
- Member of Católicos por La Raza protests. Involved in the sanctuary movement in Los Angeles, the resettlement of refugees from Central America.
- Topic:
- Asian American History
- Length:
- 7.4 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series includes full-life histories of a number of prominent Korean Americans who represent their community’s tremendous expansion during the period after federal anti-Asian immigration laws were repealed in 1965. The series focuses on the remarkable growth of the Korean American community i...
- Biographical Note:
- Project manager of the Redevelopment Agency under Mayor Tom Bradley. Board member of the Koreatown Youth and Community Center, the Korean Resource Center, and the Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program.
- Topic:
- Community HistoryAsian American History
- Length:
- 3 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The South Asian Women in Los Angeles series documents the lives of a number of women who are first generation South Asian immigrants and who lived or currently live in the greater Los Angeles area. This project was generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- Biographical Note:
- Immigrant from India. UCLA lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures.
- Topic:
- Community HistoryAsian American History
- Length:
- 1.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The South Asian Women in Los Angeles series documents the lives of a number of women who are first generation South Asian immigrants and who lived or currently live in the greater Los Angeles area. This project was generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- Biographical Note:
- Immigrant from India.
- Topic:
- Community History
- Length:
- 2 hrs.
- 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.
- Topic:
- Film and Television
- Length:
- 4.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series of interviews was undertaken in collaboration with the Art Directors Guild. Its aim is to document the lives and work of Guild members and staff who have made a significant contribution to film and television history. Interviews capture the work of title artists, set designers, art di...
- Biographical Note:
- Set designer, production designer, and Eagle Rock Historical Society archivist.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- 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. Experiences Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Queer and disabled writer. Works for Oregon Community Health Association. Lambda Fellow and the Creative Non-Fiction Ed...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- 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. Experience Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Nigerian immigrant. Public health researcher at Duke Global Health Institute. Research highlights access issues of affor...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 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. Novelist and former health communications officer in the provincial Ontario health ministry. Policy writer with strong publication record.
- Topic:
- Art
- Length:
- 5.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The Craft and Folk Art Museum (CAFAM), founded in Los Angeles by Edith and Frank Wyle, grew out of The Egg and The Eye, a commercial art gallery/restaurant devoted to international contemporary craft and folk art—and (in the restaurant) omelettes. The gallery opened November 1, 1965 at 5814 Wilsh...
- Biographical Note:
- Craft and Folk Art Museum Board Member, 1976 – 1981, 1991 – 1997, 2003 – 1010. Founding Member, Folk Art Council, 1979 – 1997; Chair, Folk Art Market, 1983 – 1997; Associates Member, 1986 – 1996.
- Topic:
- Asian American History
- Length:
- 6 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series includes full-life histories of a number of prominent Korean Americans who represent their community’s tremendous expansion during the period after federal anti-Asian immigration laws were repealed in 1965. The series focuses on the remarkable growth of the Korean American community i...
- Biographical Note:
- Vocalist, choral director, and activist for the reunification of North and South Korea.
- Topic:
- American Indian History
- Length:
- 3 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The interviews in the series the American Indian Presence in Southern California: Those Who Were Already Here survey the experiences of unrecognized tribes at one extreme and gaming tribes at the other. Southern California is the homeland of numerous tribal peoples indigenous to the region. Foll...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Gabrielino-Tongva tribe.
- Topic:
- Community History
- Length:
- 1.5 hrs.
- 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.
- Topic:
- Community History
- Length:
- 1.5 hrs.
- 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.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 2.25 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). College-educated, Al-Anon peer counselor with an array of pink collar and blue collar work experience. Filed lawsuit con...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- 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...
- Topic:
- Community HistoryScience, Medicine, and Technology
- Length:
- 2 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series of interviews looks back on Synanon, the first self-help residential community for drug rehabilitation in the United States, which was founded in Venice, California in 1959 and continued through the early 1990s. In the interviews the former residents speak from their own experience in...
- Biographical Note:
- Psychotherapist and California State University, Northridge professor of criminology and sociology. Associated with Synanon drug rehabilitation program.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsAfrican American HistoryCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 2.75 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series documents community organizations and institutions that arose in the aftermath of the Watts Rebellion to address issues such as education, employment, healthcare, housing, transportation, and police harassment. The first phase of the series involved interviews with key organizers of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Co-founder and president of Mothers in Action.
- Topic:
- Asian American History
- Length:
- 5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews document the lives and contributions of Filipino-American activists in Los Angeles in the Filipino-American identity movement of the 1960s and ‘70s. This project was generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- Biographical Note:
- Filipino American activist, archivist, and professor of Asian American studies at Loyola Marymount University. Co-founder of UCLA’s Samahang Pilipino Education and Retention (SPEAR).
- Topic:
- Community HistoryAsian American History
- Length:
- 2.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The South Asian Women in Los Angeles series documents the lives of a number of women who are first generation South Asian immigrants and who lived or currently live in the greater Los Angeles area. This project was generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- Biographical Note:
- Immigrant from India.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 1.25 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Attended UCLA with Ashe, played on the UCLA tennis team, and remained friends with Ashe after their time at UCLA.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1 hr
- 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. Experienced lead poisoning as the result of environmental racism. Environmental activist with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental 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. Lives with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Activist blogger who writes about nickel allergy. Her blog, Nickely Challenged, features her writing on her journey of n...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 1.25 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. Experiences Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Active in a local ministry. Takes a holistic approach to health, focusing on the physical and spiritual roots of illnes...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 2 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. Experiences Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Advocate for fragrance-free spaces.
- Topic:
- African American HistorySports
- Length:
- 2 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- Purpose Served: An Oral History of the Exemplary Life of Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 is an initiative of the Arthur Ashe Legacy Fund (AALF) at UCLA and is funded by AALF and by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. By launching an oral history project to document and capture the firsthand recollections of ...
- Biographical Note:
- Interviewed because of connection to tennis player Arthur Ashe. Attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and received tennis instruction for Lieutenant Ashe while he was stationed at West Point between 1967 to 1969.
- Topic:
- UCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA FacultyMusic
- Length:
- 8 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- UCLA distinguished professor of ethnomusicology. Director of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
- Topic:
- Politics and Government
- Length:
- 6.4 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series includes interviews with key individuals who served in Los Angeles city government during the administration of Mayor Tom Bradley. The interviews focus on each individual’s political development, activism, and role in the Bradley administration. Major urban policy issues addressed in ...
- Biographical Note:
- In 1974 Ochi began working for Mayor Bradley administration. Executive director of the City of Los Angeles Criminal Justice Planning Office. Instrumental figure in the Manzanar Committee’s work to designate Manzanar as a National Historic site. Director of the Community Relations Service of the D...
- Topic:
- Asian American HistoryCommunity History
- Length:
- 2.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The South Asian Women in Los Angeles series documents the lives of a number of women who are first generation South Asian immigrants and who lived or currently live in the greater Los Angeles area. This project was generously supported by Arcadia funds.
- Biographical Note:
- Immigrant from India.
- Topic:
- BuddhismAsian American History
- Length:
- 4.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The Many Branches, One Root series traces the histories and practices of a range of Buddhist traditions and communities in the greater Los Angeles area. Beginning in the early twentieth century, a succession of Buddhist traditions have put down roots in Los Angeles, each one providing spiritual s...
- Biographical Note:
- Immigrant from Taiwan. CEO of Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation and executive vice president of Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation USA.
- Topic:
- BuddhismAsian American History
- Length:
- 9.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The Many Branches, One Root series traces the histories and practices of a range of Buddhist traditions and communities in the greater Los Angeles area. Beginning in the early twentieth century, a succession of Buddhist traditions have put down roots in Los Angeles, each one providing spiritual s...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Soka Gakkai International organization.
- Topic:
- Community History
- Length:
- 2 hrs.
- 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.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 15 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:
- Member of the Chicano Moratorium Committee, and involved in the creation of the Chicano Studies Department at California State University, Northridge.