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1. Interview of Neale Henderson

Topic:
Sports
African American History
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This project is designed to document the lives of Negro League baseball players whose careers spanned the heyday of the league (1920s-1950s) and who grew up in Southern California, who played in the West Coast Professional Baseball League or the California Winter League, or who eventually migrate...
Biographical Note:
Member of the American Negro League. Shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs.

2. Interview of Joseph Brown

Topic:
African American History
Sports
Length:
2 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This project is designed to document the lives of Negro League baseball players whose careers spanned the heyday of the league (1920s-1950s) and who grew up in Southern California, who played in the West Coast Professional Baseball League or the California Winter League, or who eventually migrate...
Biographical Note:
African American baseball player.

3. Interview of James Lewis

Topic:
African American History
Sports
Length:
5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This project is designed to document the lives of Negro League baseball players whose careers spanned the heyday of the league (1920s-1950s) and who grew up in Southern California, who played in the West Coast Professional Baseball League or the California Winter League, or who eventually migrate...
Biographical Note:
Member of the American Negro League. Player for the Indianapolis Clowns.

4. Interview of Elvin C. Drake

Topic:
Sports
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Intercollegiate Athletics Staff
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA track and field coach.

5. Interview of Judith R. Holland

Topic:
Sports
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Intercollegiate Athletics Staff
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA director of women's athletics and president of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW).

6. Interview of Norman P. Miller (1988)

Topic:
Sports
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Administration
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA’s first vice chancellor of student and campus affairs and coordinator of UCLA’s involvement in the 1984 Olympic Games.

7. Interview of John R. Sandbrook

Topic:
Sports
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Administration
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA executive officer to the administrative vice chancellor. Organizer of the 1984 Olympic games.

9. Interview of Ann Koger

Topic:
Sports
African American History
Length:
3 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. Former tennis coach at Haverford College and former pro-tennis player. Met Arthur Ashe as a child when, during his matches in Baltimore with Dr. Robert Johnson’s tennis camp, he would stay with her family.

10. Interview of Allen Fox

Topic:
African American History
Sports
Length:
2.75 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. Fox and Ashe both played on the UCLA men’s tennis team, though a year apart. In 1963, they both debuted at Wimbledon as doubles partners.