Collection, Books.

The Resource Determined advocate for racial equality : : and related material, 1977-1979

Label: Determined advocate for racial equality : : and related material, 1977-1979

Statement of responsibility: Mary Frances Albrier ; tape recorded interview conducted by Malca Chall in 1977-1978. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California and for the Black Women Oral History Project, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, 1979

Summary

Comments on growing up in Tuskegee, Alabama, with her grandmother, a former slave; education at Tuskegee Institute and Howard University; move to Berkeley, Calif. in 1920; the local black community and patterns of discrimination; labor organizing activities and political action on behalf of employment opportunities for blacks; participation in civil rights programs; election to Alameda County Democratic Central Committee, 1938; black leaders; Berkeley schools and politics; women's clubs and other civic organizations; community projects in Berkeley; etc
With this: scrapbook, with mounted clippings, letters, photographs, awards, etc., and as v. 3, a box, with letters, clippings and miscellaneous papers providing additional documentation on Mrs. Albrier's career

Location of originals duplicates: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.

Location of other archival material: 3 photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1980.105--PIC)

Context

Context of Determined advocate for racial equality : : and related material, 1977-1979