Oral history interview with Ralph C. Dills : oral history transcript / By Carlos Vasquez, University of California Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1989.

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Oral history interview with Ralph C. Dills : oral history transcript / By Carlos Vasquez, University of California Los Angeles for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1989.

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Dills discusses his background, education, early political involvement in the EPIC movement and in the Democratic party, tenure as a municipal court judge particularly during the Watts rebellion in 1965, and provides considerable information on his chief legislative interests and accomplishments while serving initially as a California State Assemblyman and then as a California State Senator.

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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." ...

Dills, Ralph C.

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Dills, a native of Texas, was a public school teacher. He represented the Sixty-ninth District in the California State Assembly from 1939 to 1949. He later served as a justice of the peace and municipal judge (1949-1966), and California State Senator (1967-1990). Ralph Dill's principal legislative interest has been to protect, preserve and expand California's public education system. His legislation has included bills to create such institutions as El Camino Community College and California Stat...

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