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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.
BANC MSS 2001/40 c; Motion Picture 929 D; Phonotape 3100 C:2; Phonotape 3100 C:1; ...
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Title:

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
Disability 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-ca
Community Resources for Independent Living, Inc.
People 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

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/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3100 C:1-10.
Also available online.
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.
Volume includes index.

Type:

biography
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 v. (xx, 140 p.) ; 29 cm.
10 sound cassettes.

Language:

English

Identifier:

http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0z8k
BANC MSS 2001/40 c
Motion Picture 929 D
Phonotape 3100 C:2
Phonotape 3100 C:1
Phonotape 3100 C:3
Phonotape 3100 C:4
Phonotape 3100 C:2
Phonotape 3100 C:6
Phonotape 3100 C:7
Phonotape 3100 C:8
Phonotape 3100 C:9
Phonotape 3100 C:10

Origin:

California

Copyright 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.

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http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0z8k