Title:
Legislator for fair employment, fair housing and public health : oral history transcript: and related material, 1970-1973
Creator/Contributor:
Rumford, William Byron, 1908-1986, creator, interviewee.
Creator/Contributor:
Amerson, A. Wayne.
Creator/Contributor:
Fry, Amelia R., interviewer.
Creator/Contributor:
Henderson, Joyce A., interviewer.
Creator/Contributor:
France, Edward, interviewer.
Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.
Creator/Contributor:
Earl Warren Oral History Project (Bancroft Library)
Abstract:
Career as a pharmacist in Berkeley, Calif.; Berkeley Interracial Committee during World War II; service in the California
State Assembly, 1948-1966, with particular interest in fair employment, control of air pollution, and fair housing; state
senatorial campaign, 1966. Photographs included. Photocopies of documentary material included and appended.
Date:
1970 (issued)
Contents:
Phonotapes : Reel 1: July 10, 1970, track 1: 605 ft., track 2: blank -- Reel 2: Feb. 8, 1971, track 1: 1091 ft., track 2:
1091 ft. -- Reel 3: Feb. 8-9, 1971, track 1: 1031 ft., track 2: blank -- Reel 4: Feb. 10, 1971, track 1: 1090 ft., track 2:
12 ft. -- Reel 5: Feb. 16, 1971, track 1: 550 ft., track 2: blank -- Reel 6: Feb. 16, 1971, track 1: 559 ft., track 2: blank
-- Reel 7: Sep. 13, 1971, track 1: 1088 ft., track 2: 266 ft. -- Reel 8: track 1: 213 ft., track 2: blank. Interview notes
also available.
Subject:
Berkeley Interracial Committee.
California. -- Legislature. -- Assembly.
African Americans -- California
Discrimination in employment -- California
Discrimination in housing -- California
Air -- Pollution -- California
California -- Politics and government
Note:
William Byron Rumford; tape recorded interview conducted by Joyce A. Henderson, Amelia R. Fry and Edward France in 1970-1971.
Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1973 :
Introduction by A. Wayne Amerson.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Also available online.
Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
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.
Type:
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
[27], 152 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.
8 sound tape reels : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track ; 5 in.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z1r8z
BANC CD 284:1-9
BANC MSS 74/165 c
Phonotape 3414 C:1-10
Phonotape 543 A
BANC CD 284:1
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Origin:
California
Copyright 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.