Oral Histories

Limit your search

more »

Search

Search Constraints

Start Over You searched for: Topic Social Movements Language English

11. Interview of Frank Wilkinson

Topic:
Social Movements
Civil 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.

12. Interview of Jean Kidwell Pestana

Topic:
African American History
Social Movements
Civil Rights Movement
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Civil rights activist and attorney. Participated in the 1961 Freedom Rides.

13. Interview of Ben Margolis

Topic:
Latina and Latino History
Social Movements
Civil Liberties
Sleepy Lagoon Case
Length:
24 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:

14. Interview of Harry Hay

Topic:
Social Movements
LGBT 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.

15. Interview of William C. Aston

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Length:
7.1 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Machine shop worker and chair of the United Automobile Workers, Local 887.

16. Interview of Jack B. Tenney

Topic:
Politics and Government
Social Movements
Film and Television
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
U.S. senator from 1943 to 1955 and 38th district California State Assembly member from 1936 to 1942. Head of the California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities ("Tenney Committee") and leader of anti-communist investigations.

17. Interview of Barbara Nestor

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Chair of the Southern California chapter of the Communist Party.

18. Interview of Paul Russo

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Union organizer for United Automobile Workers Local 72.

19. Interview of James L. Daugherty

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor 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.

20. Interview of William C. Oxley

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor 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.