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Fighting toxic emissions in Richmond, California, 1984-2000 / 2003.
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Fighting toxic emissions in Richmond, California, 1984-2000 / 2003Environmental justice and grassroots environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay Area oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Clark, Henry, 1944-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Thomas, Ahmadia, 1928-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Wilmsen, Carl, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Boyhood in Richmond, California, undergraduate education, and early career; the work of the West County Toxics Coalition,
1984-present; the national and international context of WCTC's work.
Growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; volunteer for VISTA, 1970-1972; becoming active in the Citizens Action League and
ACORN; forming West County Toxics Coalition, 1982 and other volunteer work; cleaning up Point Isabel; chaplain with the Richmond
Police Dept.; negotiating with Chevron; demonstrating for Jesse Jackson in the South and other action; present condition of
the environment in Richmond and cooperating with other environmental groups.
Date:
2003 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caEnvironmentalists -- California -- Interviews
Environmental justice -- California -- Richmond
Air -- Pollution -- California -- Richmond
Green movement -- California -- Richmond
Justice environnementale -- Californie -- Richmond
Écologisme -- Californie -- Richmond
Green movement
Environmentalists
Environmental justice
Air -- Pollution
Point Isabel (Richmond, Calif.)
California -- Richmond
California
West County Toxics Coalition.
Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
Clark, Henry -- 1944-
Thomas, Ahmadia -- 1928-
Note:
Henry Clark and Ahmadia Thomas ; with an introduction by Luke W. Cole. Interviews conducted by Carl Wilmsen in 1999 and 2000.
Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Environmental justice and grassroots environmentalism in the San Francisco Bay area series.
Each interview has separate title page.
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 3709 C:1-8.
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 v. (xii, 121 p.) : ports. ; 29 cm.
8 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.