Oral history interview with Hon. Leon D. Ralph, 1991 : oral history transcript / by Arlene Lazarowitz, Oral History Program, California State University, Fullerton, for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1993.

Congress of Racial Equality

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Downtown CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), a chapter of the CORE national organization, was formed in March 1963 and remained active until the end 1966. Based on Manhattan's Lower East Side, it was one of nearly a dozen New York City local chapters organized in the early 1960s. Its founders included Rita and Michael Schwerner (the latter one of the group of three civil rights workers murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964), and its members included radical pacifist Igal Rodenko, anarchi...

Brown, Willie L. (Willie Lewis), Jr., 1934-

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Willie Lewis Brown Jr. (born March 20, 1934) is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, Brown served over 30 years in the California State Assembly, spending 15 years as its speaker. He later became mayor of San Francisco, the first African American to hold that office. The San Francisco Chronicle called Brown "one of San Francisco's most notable mayors", adding that he had "celebrity beyond the city's boundaries." Born in Mineola, Texas, Brown graduated from Mine...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Lazarowitz, Arlene, 1945-

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California State University, Fullerton. Oral History Program

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Caroline Lyman Bayles was born 13 May 1890 in Scipio, Millard, Utah to Platte DeAlton Lyman and Adelia Robison. She grew up in Bluff, Utah and married Hanson Durham Bayles 20 December 1911 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. They had eight children. Caroline died 21 June 1984 in Blanding, San Juan, Utah. Alfretta (Retta) James Hurst was born 10 October 1884 in Wilford, Apache, Arizona to Joseph Henry James and Elizabeth Salome Bloomfield. Her family moved to the Mormon c...

Ralph, Leon D.

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Leon Douglas Ralph, b. Richmond, Va., 1932; served in the California State Assembly from 1966-1976; during his tenure he was active on many committees and was concerned primarily with the affirmative action and other issues effecting minorities. From the description of Oral history interview with Hon. Leon D. Ralph, 1991 : oral history transcript / by Arlene Lazarowitz, Oral History Program, California State University, Fullerton, for the State Government Oral History Program, Califo...

State Government Oral History Program (Calif.)

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Administrative History Documentation of California state government with the use of oral history techniques began in 1969 with the Earl Warren Era Oral History Project. It was initiated by the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library and "centered on key developments in politics and government administration at the state and county level, innovations in criminal justice, public health, and social welfare from 1928-1953." ...

Democratic Party (Calif.)

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