Jane Collings, interviewer and principal editor, Center for Oral History Research. B.A., Communications, Antioch College; M.A., Communications, University of Iowa; Ph.D., Critical Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.
Place: Green's office at the Long Beach Alliance for Children with Asthma
Total number of recorded hours: 5
Persons present during interview: Green and Collings
This interview is one among a series that documents environmental activism in the Los Angeles area from the 1970's through to the present day. The majority of interviews are conducted with either founders or knowledgeable participants in major regional environmental organizations. Represented groups embody a wide range of issues, including conservation, restoration, environmental justice and toxic waste disposal.
Collings prepared for the interviews by reviewing material on the work, mission and structure of the Long Beach Alliance of Children with Asthma, and on history of activism on the ports and goods movement as it pertains to the cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
The interviewer compiled the table of contents and interview history and supplied the spellings of proper nouns and the complete names entered in brackets in the text. Green did not review the transcript and provided the biographical information.
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. The interviewee was then given the opportunity to review the transcript in order to supply the missing or misspelled names and to verify the accuracy of the contents, and those corrections were entered into the text without further editing or review on the part of the Center for Oral History Research (COHR) staff.
In some cases the audio recording may differ slightly from the transcript, either because the transcriptionist did not accurately transcribe what was said or because of the changes the interviewee made at the time of their review.