Audio / Video

Johnnie Lacy

Description

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.

Details

Title

Johnnie Lacy

Creator

interviewee. Lacy, Johnnie, 1937-

interviewer. Landes, David L. 1941-2008, (David Lamont),

Creator

Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.

Full Collection Name

California Audiovisual Preservation Project

Other Identifiers

cabeuroh_000258

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

Video

Format

Oral histories.

Archive

The Library

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Collection

California AV Project

Tracks

cabeuroh_000258_access.HD.mov

Linked Resources

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