Oral history interview with Helen Linder Myers : oral history transcript / By Enid H. Douglass, Claremont Graduate School Oral History Program for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1990.

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Oral history interview with Helen Linder Myers : oral history transcript / By Enid H. Douglass, Claremont Graduate School Oral History Program for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1990.

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Myers reviews her family background, education and life in the midwest. She describes her volunteer work for the Democratic Party in Los Angeles beginning in 1946. She relates experiences while managing Evelyn Johnson's and Helen Rudd Brown's campaigns. In addition, she explains the formation of the California Democratic Council.

247 p. ; 29 cm.

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