| Title: |
Dixie Swift
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Southeast Asian History: Hmong
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| Description: |
Dixie Swift is an innovative leader, teacher, arts supporter, and community advocate who provided support and encouragement for over three decades to Hmong immigrants and their artistic traditions. Over her working career, she has taught, run a gallery, and been the director of a community center. Her gallery, Shakti, in downtown Long Beach served emerging artists. She developed a multiethnic arts based community center for Long Beach Parks, Recreation and Marine called Homeland.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Swift, Dixie
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker occupation: |
Community leader; Educator
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Locations discussed: |
California; Long Beach, CA; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Art; Art centers; Artists; California; Hmong (Asian people)--California; Hmong (Asian people)--Long Beach (Calif.); Long Beach, CA; North America; Oral history; United States
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035308-38876
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