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.)
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-.