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Political activists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Jerrie Meadows oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-meadows
Abstract Sound recording of interview with Jerrie Meadows conducted by Glenna Matthews. Community organizer and activist; worked as research department secretary for the ILWU, 1947-1952; office secretary for the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians Local 51, 1958-1967; supervisor and convention coordinator for the National Lawyers Guild, 1960s; and community activist and organizer with a variety of San Francisco causes and organizations, including the California Nurses...
Dates: 1997 May 19-June 13

Jean Pauline oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-pauline
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Sound recording of interview with Jean Pauline conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Discusses youth in Brooklyn, 1920s-1930s, early interest in cooperatives and anarchism, coming to California, 1944; helping establish Peace and Freedom Party in San Diego, 1967; and Modern Times Bookstore Collective in San Francisco, 1971; describes assisting victims of AIDS crisis, San Francisco, 1980s.

Dates: 1996 March 26-April 2

Tim Sampson oral history

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Identifier: larc-oh-sampson
Abstract Sound recording of interview with Tim Sampson conducted by Harvey Schwartz. Describes posts with Avalon-Carver Community Center, Los Angeles; Center for Community Development, Fresno; and National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), Washington, D.C.; Administrative Director, NWRO, 1967-1970; analyzes techniques of successful community organizing; recalls Cesar Chavez, Saul Alinsky, and George A. Wiley; hired at SFSU, 1970; President California Faculty Association at San Francisco State...
Dates: 1998 August 19