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Guide to the African Americans Affected by the East Bay Hills Fire Oral History Collection
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Access Restrictions
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Processing Information
  • Biography / Administrative History
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Arrangement
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: African Americans Affected by the East Bay Hills Fire oral history collection
    Dates: 1993-1995
    Collection number: MS184
    Creator: African American Museum & Library at Oakland
    Creator: Atkinson, Nicole C.
    Collection Size: .75 linear feet (1 box)
    Repository: African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
    Oakland, CA 94612
    Abstract: The African Americans Affected by the East Bay Hills Fire Oral History Collection was an oral history project undertaken by the African American Museum & Library at Oakland. The African Americans Affected by the East Bay Hills Fire Oral History Collection consists of 10 interviews conducted from 1993 to 1995 with African Americans who were living in the East Bay during the Oakland hills firestorm of October 1991.
    Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English

    Access

    No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.

    Access Restrictions

    Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.

    Publication Rights

    Permission to publish must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.

    Preferred Citation

    African Americans Affected by the East Bay Hills Fire oral history collection, MS184, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.

    Acquisition Information

    Oral history interviews were conducted by the African American Museum & Library at Oakland and retained in the African American Museum & Library at Oakland archives.

    Processing Information

    Processed by Carl Schmitz.

    Biography / Administrative History

    The African Americans Affected by the East Bay Hills Fire Oral History Collection was an oral history project undertaken by the African American Museum & Library at Oakland. Interviews were conducted by Nicole C. Atkinson.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The African Americans Affected by the East Bay Hills Fire Oral History Collection consists of 10 interviews conducted from 1993 to 1995 with African Americans who were living in the East Bay during the Oakland hills firestorm of October 1991. In addition to interviews with subjects whose homes were lost during the Oakland hills firestorm, the interview with P. Lamont Ewell documents the experience of the Fire Chief for the City of Oakland. These interviews are preserved in their original cassette tape format. Also available are a list of the questions used for the interviews and a complete collection of transcriptions.
    The oral history interviews are divided into series by subject and organzied chronologically by the date in which they were conducted.

    Arrangement

    Series I. Oral history cassette tapes Series II. Transcripts and interview questions

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
    Berkeley (Calif.)--History.
    Oakland (Calif.)--History.
    African Americans--California--History.
    Fires--California--Berkeley.
    Fires--California--Oakland.
    Wildfires--California--Berkeley.
    Wildfires--California--Oakland.
    Disasters--California--History.
    Johnson, Chuck, 1938-.