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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.

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Title
Johnnie Lacy, Director, Community Resources for Independent Living: an African-American woman's perspective on the independent living movement in the Bay Area, 1960s-1980s; an interview conducted by David Landes in 1998
Creator
interviewee., Lacy, Johnnie, 1937-
interviewer., Landes, David L. 1941-2008, (David Lamont),
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
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Full Collection Name
California Audiovisual Preservation Project
Other Identifiers
cabeuroh_000259
Subject (Corporate)
Community Resources for Independent Living, Inc.
Subject (Topic)
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 Social conditions. -- United States
African Americans with disabilities.
Personnes handicapées Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Entretiens.
Poliomyélite Patients -- Entretiens.
Femmes handicapées Entretiens.
Personnes handicapées Activité politique -- États-Unis.
Personnes handicapées Conditions sociales. -- États-Unis
Noirs américains handicapés.
Type
Audio
Format
Oral histories.
Archive
The Library
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