Alva Moore Stevenson, Series Coordinator, UCLA Center for Oral History Research.
Home of Lillian Mobley in Los Angeles
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Mobley and Stevenson
This is one interview in the series, Twenty Five Years of Community Organizing and Institution Building in the Aftermath of Watts: 1965-1990. The Watts community in 1965 faced deep social and economic inequities. Education and training was severely lacking, leaving many Black Angelenos ill-equipped to survive – let alone succeed and excel. The series will focus on those community organizations and institutions which arose in the aftermath to address issues such as education, employment, healthcare, housing, transportation and police harassment.
Stevenson prepared for the interviews by perusing the files of Congress member Alfred S. Moore and various primary and secondary sources related to the Watts Rebellion of 1965 and urban unrest in the U.S.
The interviewer compiled the table of contents and interview history and supplied the spellings of proper noun. Lillian Mobley did not review the transcript and therefore some proper names may remain unverified.
The transcript of this interview is a verbatim transcript of the audio recording. It was transcribed by a professional transcribing agency using a list of proper names and specialized terminology supplied by the interviewer. In some cases the audio recording may differ slightly from the transcript because the transcriptionist did not accurately transcribe what was said.
Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Center for Oral History Research.