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21. Interview of Fletcher Smith

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
2.45 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 piano player.

22. Interview of Coney Woodman

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
2 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 piano player.

23. Interview of William Ernest Green

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
1.8 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 saxophone, clarinet, and flute player. Music educator at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts and owner of a music education studio in Los Angeles.

24. Interview of Cecil McNeely

Topic:
African American History
Music
Length:
1.75 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 saxophone player.

25. Interview of Sherman Savage

Topic:
African American History
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
California State College, Los Angeles professor of history. The first black graduate of the University of Oregon and the first black individual to receive a doctorate from Ohio State University.

27. Interview of Thomas Bradley (1984)

Topic:
Politics and Government
African American History
Length:
9.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Mayor of Los Angeles from 1973 to 1993.

28. Interview of Ruth J. Temple

Topic:
African American History
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Physician and co-founder of the Temple Health Institute, a community-based health clinic.

29. Interview of Claude H. Hudson

Topic:
African American History
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Civil rights activist and president of branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Louisiana and Los Angeles.

30. Interview of Leo Branton

Topic:
African American History
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Lawyer and civil rights activist.