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Challenging the status quo, the twenty-seven year campaign for Southwest Junior College : oral history transcript / and related
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Challenging the status quo, the twenty-seven year campaign for Southwest Junior College : oral history transcript: and related material, 1977-1978Creator/Contributor:
Cox, Odessa Brown, 1922-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Chall, Malca, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Cox, Sandra Elaine.Creator/Contributor:
Jackson, Agnes Moreland.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Comments on family background, growing up and education in Alabama; move to Los Angeles in 1944; integration problems; continuing
interest in equal rights; campaign for Los Angeles Southwest Junior College, 1965-69; her campaign for election to Board of
Trustees, Los Angeles City Junior College District, 1969; organization and work of the Southeast Interracial Council.
Appended: photocopies of documentary material supporting the interview.
With this: photocopies of additional documentary material.
Date:
1977 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- n-us---African Americans
African American women -- California
Education -- California
Civil rights -- United States
Education -- California -- Los Angeles
Community colleges -- California -- Los Angeles
Segregation in education -- California -- Los Angeles
African Americans
Noirs américains
Noires américaines -- Californie
Droits de l'homme -- États-Unis
Collèges communautaires -- Californie -- Los Angeles
Ségrégation en éducation -- Californie -- Los Angeles
African American
African American women
African Americans
Civil rights
Community colleges
Education
Segregation in education
California
California -- Los Angeles
United States
Southwest Community College (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Community College District.
Southeast Interracial Council, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Community College District.
United States -- California -- Berkeley
Note:
Odessa Cox ; tape recorded interview conducted by Malca Chall in 1977. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1978 :
Introductions by Sandra Cox and Agnes Moreland Jackson.
Tape-recorded interviews conducted 1977 by Malca Chall for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library.
Phonotape also available.
Copies of photographs inserted.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available online.
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.
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Oral histories.Physical Description:
print
[7], xii, 149 leaves ; 28 cm + related material
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley.