Building the Democratic Party in California,1954-1966 :
oral history transcript /
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 :
and related material,
1976-1981.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Subjects
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Kent, Elizabeth Thacher,
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Kent, Elizabeth Thacher, /
1868-1952.
Kent, William,
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Kent, William, /
1864-1928.
Brown, Edmund G.
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Brown, Edmund G. /
(Edmund Gerald),
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Brown, Edmund G. / (Edmund Gerald), /
1905-1996.
Stevenson, Adlai E.
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Stevenson, Adlai E. /
(Adlai Ewing),
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Stevenson, Adlai E. / (Adlai Ewing), /
1900-1965.
Democratic Party (Calif.)
California
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California /
Politics and government
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California / Politics and government /
20th century.
Oral histories.
- Summary
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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).
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.
- Note
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Introduction by G. Stanleigh Arnold.
Copies of photographs inserted; copies of obituaries and documentary material appended.
Also available online.
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Classified as Phonotape 1408.
- Physical Description
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Phonotapes:
23 reel to reel tapes, 1 sound cassette.
Related material :
1 box, 2 sound cassettes.
Transcript (1 v.) :
[23], xix, 476 p. ;
28 cm.
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