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Mainstream magazine, chronicling national disability politics : oral history transcriptDisability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Jones, Cynthia, 1951-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Stothers, William, 1940-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Breslin, Mary Lou, 1944-, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
O'Hara, Susan, 1938-2018, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Cynthia Jones (b. 1951), Mainstream Magazine editor and publisher: Contracting and living with effects of polio; UC San Diego
in the sixties, accessibility issues; Episcopal Women's Caucus and other church work; practice of real estate specializing
in accessible housing; myths about disability; passage of American with Disabilities Act (ADA) and advising state and national
government groups on disability issues; promotion of opportunities for the able disabled through the media.
William Stothers (b. 1940), Journalist and Managing Editor of Mainstream Magazine: Polio epidemic in the U.S. and Canada;
childhood years in rehabilitation hospitals; mainstream schooling and University of Western Ontario; work as journalist for
Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star; University of California, Berkeley gradutate school impact; independent living movement
in Canada and U.S.; meeting spouse Cynthia Jones at White House Conference on Handicapped Individuals, 1977; San Diego Union
career; reflections on Justin Dart, media coverage for people with disabilities, accessibility issues; history of Mainstream
Magazine and its accomplishments.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caJournalists -- Interviews
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- United States -- Periodicals
People with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions
People with disabilities -- Political activity -- United States
Journalistes -- Entretiens
Poliomyélite -- Patients -- Entretiens
Personnes handicapées -- États-Unis -- Périodiques
Personnes handicapées -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
Personnes handicapées -- Activité politique -- États-Unis
Journalists
Poliomyelitis -- Patients
People with disabilities -- Social conditions
People with disabilities
United States
Mainstream (San Diego, Calif.)
Jones, Cynthia -- 1951- -- Interviews
Stothers, William -- 1940- -- Interviews
Note:
Cynthia Jones, Mainstream magazine editor and publisher ; William Stothers, journalist and managing editor of Mainstream magazine.
Interviews conducted by Mary Lou Breslin and Susan O'Hara in 1999.
Forms part of: Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3099 C:1-12.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyoral histories (literary works)
interviews.
Oral histories
Periodicals
Interviews
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Histoires orales.
Interviews.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xxii, 228 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
12 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.