- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- 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 in the Chicano Blowouts. Co-editor, writer, and photographer for La Raza, a Chicano-movement newspaper.
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- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 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:
- Project manager for the Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma. Participant in THE (Trade, Health, Environment) Impact Project, an organization focused on the community health impact of the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor Movement
- Length:
- 2 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:
- Immigrant from Mexico. Union organizer and leader of the Service Employees International Union’s Justice for Janitors campaign in San Diego.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyFilm and Television
- Length:
- 10.65 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:
- Screenwriter who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
- 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:
- Minister of finance and correspondence of the Brown Beret organization's founding chapter. Administrator of El Barrio Free Clinic and member of the National Chicano Moratorium Committee.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsAfrican American HistoryCivil Rights Movement
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Participant in the Freedom Rides sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to desegregate southern transportation facilities.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist Party
- Length:
- 42 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Chair of the Southern California chapter of the Communist Party.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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:
- 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:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 4.5 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:
- Co-founded Santa Barbara’s Community Environmental Council in response to the 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara. Founding director of Santa Barbara Citizens for Environmental Defense and the Environmental Defense Center.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsFilm and TelevisionCommunist Party
- Length:
- 3 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:
- Journalist who wrote articles exposing the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryCentral Americans in Southern CaliforniaCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 9 hrs
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- This series of interviews includes activists who were involved in founding and sustaining organizations in the Central American community in the 1980s. It examines the participants' activism and political persecution in Central America, their immigration to the U.S., and the ways they organized t...
- Biographical Note:
- Immigrant from El Salvador who worked with El Rescate and Clínica Monseñor Oscar A. Romero. Participated in founding of the Department of Central American Studies at California State University, Northridge.
- 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. Diagnosed with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). Run support group for people with MCAS in East Bay, California.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLGBT 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.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor Movement
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Union organizer. Head of the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) and business manager of the Motion Picture Painters union, Local 644.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor Movement
- Length:
- 13.3 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Union organizer and president of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) Local 1414. President of the California Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and member of the Communist Party.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor Movement
- Length:
- 4.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- President of the United Automobile Workers, Local 506 and president of the San Diego Industrial Union Council.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist Party
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Chair of the Southern California chapter of the Communist Party.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsJournalismCivil LibertiesSleepy Lagoon Case
- Length:
- 12.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Author and editor of the Nation, known for writing on California politics and culture.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCivil 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.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsCivil LibertiesSleepy Lagoon Case
- Length:
- 24 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Topic:
- Social MovementsUCLA and University of California HistoryCommunist PartyUCLA FacultyUCLA 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.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunity 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.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyFilm and Television
- Length:
- 1.9 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:
- Screenwriter and co-founder of the Screen Writers Guild who was blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 2.5 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:
- Founding member of No Oil Inc. and instrumental in the successful passage of a ballot proposition preventing oil drilling in Santa Monica Bay.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsWomen's Issues
- Length:
- 3.5 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:
- 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.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 4 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:
- Early member of the Friends of the Los Angeles River and author of Down by the Los Angeles River, a guide to river walks. Member of Bus Rider’s Union; advocate for bike lanes; resident of Los Angeles Eco-Village.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyLabor 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.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor 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.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyLiteratureLabor Movement
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Topic:
- African American HistorySocial MovementsCivil Rights Movement
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Civil rights activist and attorney. Participated in the 1961 Freedom Rides.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsJournalismLabor Movement
- Length:
- 3 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Labor activist and publicity director for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementCommunist PartyLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Communist Party.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementCommunist PartyLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCivil Liberties
- Length:
- 58.75 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Civil liberties activist. Executive director of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation and the First Amendment Foundation.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCivil Liberties
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Publisher of works about racially segregated education in Los Angeles with husband John Caughey.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLGBT MovementWomen's Issues
- Length:
- 3.25 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:
- Activist for LGBTQ rights and teacher's issues. June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives board member.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor MovementCommunist PartyLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Daughter of leftist novelist and journalist Meridel Le Sueur.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 4.5 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:
- Founder of Wetlands Action Network, an organization that opposed Playa Vista land development at the Ballona Wetlands. Co-founder of the Ballona Institute and manager of the Coastal Law Enforcement Action Network (CLEAN).
- Topic:
- Social MovementsUCLA and University of California HistoryDisability Rights and Independent Living MovementUCLA 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.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyFilm and Television
- Length:
- 1.75 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Story editor and producer.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLGBT MovementWomen's Issues
- Length:
- 8.25 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:
- LGBTQ activist and board member of the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives.
- 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:
- 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:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyFilm 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.
- 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. Author of "Intentional Healing: One Woman's Path to Higher Consciousness and Freedom from Environmental and Other Chronic Illnesses." Experiences Multiple Chemical Sens...
- 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. Jewish man living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Fragrance-free building advocate. Founder, Environmental Illness, Thrive. Activism brought fragrance-free sp...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 7 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:
- Vice president of environmental health for the American Lung Association of California. Governor's appointee to the South Coast Air Quality Management District Board and the California Air Resources Board.
- 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. Founder of Base Coat Nail Salon, a non-toxic nail salon. Partners with California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor Movement
- Length:
- 6.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Co-founding officer of the Coalition of Labor Union Women and president of the United Public Workers Local 246. General manager for GM at Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 434.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsAfrican American HistoryCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 8 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:
- Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science professor of medicine. Education and health activist.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 1.5 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:
- Associate vice chancellor for environment and sustainability at UCLA.
- 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. Born in Montreal, Canada, Solona is a software developer who is living with MCS and is extremely avoidant to mold. Solona has written to government officials and partic...
- 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:
- Los Angeles lawyer and administrative law judge with the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Important in the fight for a living wage ordinance and for a new high school.
- 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 Lyme Disease. Storyteller. Gender non-conforming. Narrates experiences of chemical exposure and illness from the perspective of genetics.
- 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. Before her Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) became debilitating, Petit was a multilingual school teacher and Girl Guides of Canada volunteer.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Illness
- Length:
- 2.5 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:
- Experiences Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). Community organizer and lesbian, feminist activist.
- 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...
- 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. Dr. Oliver has an MD, MPH, and MS. President of Occupational Health Initiatives, Inc. Professor in the Occupational and Environmental Health Division of the Dalla Lana ...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryChicano Movement
- Length:
- 11.5 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:
- Chicano movement activist, member of the Los Angeles County Mexican American Education Committee. Founding member of the Latin American Civic Association. Involved in the creation of a Chicano studies department at California State University, Northridge.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsWomen's Issues
- Length:
- 3 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:
- Feminist activist in anti-rape work, women’s sexuality, and feminist theology. Co-founder of the Rape Crisis Hotline and Women Against Sexual Abuse. Co-founder of the Califia Community. California State University, Long Beach educator in the Women’s Studies Program.
- 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 chemical sensitivity, but uses the term "fragrance disability" to describe their condition. Executive personal assistant and events coordinator. Describes h...
- 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. Experiences Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS). First exposed to dangerous chemicals as a factory worker in the 1980s. Housing that accommodates those with chemical se...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsWomen's IssuesArt
- Length:
- 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:
- Performance and video artist. Involved in the Women’s Building, a center for feminist art in 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. Developed Multiple Chemical Sensitivities in 1992. Due to subsequent exposure to pesticides is predominantly housebound.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCivil Liberties
- Length:
- 19 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCivil Liberties
- Length:
- 12 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Chair of San Francisco State College’s Department of Education.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsCommunist PartySleepy Lagoon CaseLiterature
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Novelist, screenwriter, and activist. Member of the Communist Party.
- Topic:
- Politics and GovernmentSocial MovementsJournalism
- Length:
- 15.25 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Member of the Socialist Party and active in the Populist movement. Reporter for the Los Angeles Record, editor of EPIC News, and a commissioner on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsWomen's Issues
- Length:
- 4.5 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:
- Activist for labor, children, and women’s rights. Executive director of Centro de Niños, a bicultural, bilingual children’s center.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsAfrican American HistoryCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 5 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:
- Member of the Black Congress and the Long Beach Community Improvement League.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 2.5 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:
- Educator in the area of greywater systems and Greywater Action founder. Author of The Water-Wise Home: How to Conserve, Capture, and Reuse Water in Your Home and Landscape. Resident of Los Angeles Eco-Village.
- 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:
- 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:
- 3 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 Oral Histories of Environmental Illness series. Visual effects illustrator living with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS).
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental 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. From Peru, Martha Garrido is a Latina woman and a care worker living in San Francisco. She is a member of the California Domestic Workers Coalition. She describes the h...
- Topic:
- African American HistorySocial MovementsCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 2.25 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:
- Founder and executive director of Parents of Watts.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 4.5 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:
- Executive director of the Southern California Association of Non-Profit Housing and the West Hollywood Community Housing Corporation.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor Movement
- Length:
- 1 hr.
- 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:
- Involved in the Service Employees International Union’s Justice for Janitors campaign.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 25 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:
- Mexican American activist and co-chair of the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsWomen's Issues
- Length:
- 6 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:
- Pioneer of women’s oral history and director of the California State University, Long Beach Oral History Program. Anti-war and anti-Zionist activist. Co-founder of the Westside Women's Center.
- 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. This interview was conducted by Kelsey Kim, graduate student interviewer, for the Center for the Study of Women in cooperation with UCLA Center for Oral History Researc...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCivil Liberties
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Activist. Executive secretary for the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee and volunteer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
- 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. Poet and professor of poetry at Brock University, whose writing has a focus on poetry and science. Author of four books, including "Anatomic" and "The Polymers," which ...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLabor Movement
- Length:
- 12.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Union organizer for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union, and Federation of Retired Union Members (FORUM).
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsChicano Movement
- Length:
- 16 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. Member of La Vida Nueva and the movement to establish the Chicano Studies program at East Los Angeles College.
- 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. Professor of Legal Studies, University of Houston-Clear Lake in Texas. Lives with Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). Childhood lung cancer survivor. Mold ex...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsLatina and Latino HistoryEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 8.5 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:
- Founder of Coalition for a Safe Environment, which fought port pollution in Wilmington, California. Participant in THE (Trade, Health, Environment) Impact Project, an organization focused on the community health impact of the Los Angeles/Long Beach ports.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunist PartyLiteratureLabor Movement
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
- Biographical Note:
- Business representative of the Office and Professional Employees International Union.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsSleepy Lagoon CaseCivil Liberties
- Length:
- 16.5 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Biographical Note:
- Activist. Executive secretary for the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee and volunteer for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
- Topic:
- UCLA and University of California HistoryEducationSocial MovementsUCLA FacultyWomen's Issues
- Length:
- 7 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 higher education and senior scholar at the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute.
- Topic:
- Latina and Latino HistorySocial MovementsCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 6 hrs.
- Language:
- English
- Audio:
- Series Statement:
- The Community Service Organization, commonly known as the CSO, was founded in 1947 as a civil rights advocacy group that boasted a multi-ethnic membership. Individuals selected for this oral history series resided in Los Angeles during the 1940s and joined the Community Service Organization durin...
- Biographical Note:
- Co-founder of the Chicano civil rights group the Community Service Organization. First Mexican American woman organizer and business agent for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), founding member of the California Democratic Council, and a political appointee of the Lyndon B. J...
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 6.5 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:
- Founder of TreePeople. Co-organizer of Los Angeles Million Tree Campaign. Involved in Los Angeles urban forest and urban watershed initiatives.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 10 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:
- Founder of Esperanza Community Development Corporation and member of the Sisters of Social Service.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsEnvironmental Movement
- Length:
- 5.5 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:
- Poet, journalist, and filmmaker. Founder of Friends of the Los Angeles River.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsFilm and TelevisionCommunist Party
- Length:
- 4.5 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:
- Son of the screen and television writer Dalton Trumbo, who was one of the Hollywood Ten, who were imprisoned and blacklisted in the post-World War II Hollywood blacklist.
- Topic:
- Social MovementsAfrican American HistoryCommunity Activism
- Length:
- 3 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 executive director of the Watts Summer Festival.