Director, Community Resources for Independent Living
Subtitle: an African-American woman's perspective on the independent living movement in the Bay Area, 1960s-1980s
By: Johnnie Lacy ; an interview conducted by David Landes in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Landes, David.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Online Archive of California.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Community Resources for Independent Living, Inc.; People with disabilities -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews.; Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Interviews.; Women with disabilities -- Interviews.; People with disabilities -- United States -- Political activity.; People with disabilities -- United States -- Social conditions.; African Americans with disabilities.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement oral history series.
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.