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151. Interview of Tom Reed

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
4 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Los Angeles disc jockey on soul radio stations during the 1960s and 1970s who was known as “the Master Blaster.” Producer and host of "For Members Only," a Los Angeles news and entertainment program directed at African Americans.

152. Interview of Joe Reeder

Topic:
African American History
Sports
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...

153. Interview of Evelyn Reeves

Topic:
Business
African American History
Length:
2 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:
Owner of First Security Investment Company, a real estate and property management company in Los Angeles.

154. Interview of John Riddle

Topic:
African American History
Art
Length:
5.8 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
The interviews in the series African American Artists of Los Angeles document significant African American Artists and others in the Los Angeles metropolitan area who have worked to expand exhibition opportunities and public support for African American visual culture. The series was made possibl...
Biographical Note:
African American artist.

155. Interview of Marty Riessen

Topic:
Sports
African American History
Length:
3.75 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 and Ashe were members of the US Davis Cup together, and Riessen was a player in 1981 when Ashe was Davis Cup captain. Riessen and Ashe also co-founded Players Enterprise Incorpoated in October 1969, the Association of Tennis Profe...

156. Interview of Evelyn Freeman Roberts

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews with African American musicians provide details about the narrators' background, training, influences, and musical choices and discuss their contributions, and connections to the music of black Los Angeles. The series was a collaborative project of the UCLA Center for Oral Histor...
Biographical Note:
Bandleader of the Evelyn Freeman Swing Band, Wings over Jordan, Evelyn Freeman Orchestra, and the Young Saints.

157. Interview of Virgil P. Roberts

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
African American History
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
2.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series include individuals who were instrumental in creating and guiding the Center for African American Studies at UCLA to a position of widely recognized excellence among the nation's African American studies departments, centers, and institutes.
Biographical Note:
Managing partner of the law firm Bobbitt & Roberts and president of Solar Records. Involved in the founding of the UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies.

158. Interview of Gertrude Robinson

Topic:
African American History
UCLA and University of California History
Music
UCLA Research Centers and Programs
Length:
1.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
This series documents the history of UCLA's Institute of Ethnomusicology, which was founded in 1961 and dissolved in 1974.
Biographical Note:
Performer of Balinese and Javanese music and director of the ethnomusicology program at Loyola Marymount University. Graduate student in ethnomusicology during her time at UCLA.

159. Interview of Minor Robinson

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
3.8 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
Interviews in this series preserve the spoken memories of individuals, mainly musicians, who were raised near and/or performed on Los Angeles's Central Avenue from the late 1920s to the mid-1950s.
Biographical Note:
Jazz drummer.

160. Interview of Randall Robinson

Topic:
Sports
African American History
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.