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Determined advocate for racial equality : oral history transcript / Mary Frances Albrier

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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; etcWith 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 careerPart of the Berkeley Oral Histories of African Americans in the Bancroft LibraryCopyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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Albrier, Frances Mary, 1898-1987, IntervieweeChall, Malca, Interviewer
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Keywords

  1. African American Women
  2. African American Women Political Activists
  3. African Americans
  4. Alameda County
  5. Berkeley
  6. Berkeley (Calif.)
  7. California
  8. California, Boats
  9. Civil Rights
  10. Democratic Party (Calif.)
  11. Discrimination
  12. Discrimination In Employment
  13. Government
  14. Indians Of North America
  15. Interviews
  16. Labor Unions
  17. Politic Activists
  18. Politics And Government
  19. Schools
  20. Slaver
  21. Slavery
  22. United States
  23. Women

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