Building the Democratic Party in California,1954-1966
Subtitle: and related material
By: Roger Kent; tape-recorded interview conducted in 1976-1977 by Anne H. Brower and Amelia R. Fry for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1981 :
Contributors: Brower, Anne.; Fry, Amelia R.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Subjects: Stevenson, Adlai E. 1900-1965.; Brown, Edmund G. 1905-1996.; Kent, William, 1864-1928.; Kent, Elizabeth Thacher, 1868-1952.; Democratic Party (Calif.); California -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Description: Concerns Kent's political activities as state chairman or Northern California chairman of the Democratic State Central Commitee, 1954-1964, with emphasis on political campaigns, 1954-1966, particularly Stevenson's 1956 presidential campaign and Pat Brown's gubernatorial canpaign's. Kent comments on his work with Department of Defense and the Securities and Exchange Commission; his private law practice; his father, William Kent, and his mother, Elizabeth T. Kent; family life; etc.

copies of speeches, clippings, letters, pamphlets, etc. 2 sound cassettes, one of his memorial service, May 22, 1980; the other an excerpt from an interview with Alice Paul concerning Kent (shelved as Phonotape 2947 C).