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Director, Community Resources for Independent Living : oral history transcript : an African-American woman's perspective on
the independent living movement in the Bay Area, 1960s-1980s / 2000.
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Director, Community Resources for Independent Living : oral history transcript: an African-American woman's perspective on the independent living movement in the Bay Area, 1960s-1980s / 2000Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Lacy, Johnnie, 1937-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Landes, David L. (David Lamont), 1941-2008, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Childhood in Arkansas, Louisiana, and McCloud, California; Chico State University, 1954-1956; contracting polio, 1956, and
rehab at Fairmount Hospital, San Leandro; majoring in speech therapy at an inaccessible San Francisco State University, 1958-1960;
work for Volunteer Bureau of Alameda County; black nationalist and civil rights movements in Oakland; Alameda County Health
Department; anti-poverty work for Oakland Economic Development Council, 1965-1968; West Oakland Community Development Center,
1969; graduate studies in sociology at UC Berkeley, 1969-1972; Model Cities Program; UC Office of the President, 1973; Antioch
College West, project coordinator, 1973-1977; reflections on the 504 demonstration, San Francisco, 1977 and independent living
movement (CIL, DLRC, and DREDF); Community Resources for Independent Living, Inc., 1981-94; reflections on outreach to people
of color with disabilities.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPeople with disabilities -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Interviews
Women with disabilities -- Interviews
People with disabilities -- Political activity -- United States
People with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions
African Americans with disabilities
Personnes handicapées -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Entretiens
Poliomyélite -- Patients -- Entretiens
Femmes handicapées -- Entretiens
Personnes handicapées -- Activité politique -- États-Unis
Personnes handicapées -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales
Noirs américains handicapés
Women with disabilities
Poliomyelitis -- Patients
People with disabilities -- Social conditions
People with disabilities
African Americans with disabilities
United States
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Community Resources for Independent Living, Inc.
Note:
Johnnie Lacy ; an interview conducted by David Landes in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University
of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Disability rights and independent living movement oral history series.
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3100 C:1-10.
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:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (xx, 140 pages) ; 29 cm
10 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
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.