The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

Women political leaders

Repository: University of California, Berkeley. Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office

Collection Description (CRHP): The collection includes interviews with Odessa Cox, a labor organizer, civil rights activists, member of the Southeast Interracial Council and founder of the South-Central Junior College. The interview with Frances Mary Albrier is a copy from the Black Women Oral History Project at the Schlesinger Library.

Access Copy Note: The interview transcript with Cox is available online at the University of California's Calisphere at http://www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu/

Collection URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/collections/subjectarea/pol_gov/ca_women_pol.html

Interviewees: Odessa Cox

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights.

Subjects:

African American women civil rights workers
California--Politics and government
Civil rights movements--California
Women--Political activity

Genres:

Interviews
Transcripts