| Title: |
Joan Robins
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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: |
Women's History: Los Angeles Feminists
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| Description: |
Joan Robins, an early guiding force in the Los Angeles women's liberation movement, was one of the key movers in establishing the Crenshaw Women's Center. With Dorothy Bricker, she started one of the first consciousness raising groups, ""Women's Liberation One,"" and with others helped to organized the first International Women's Day in Los Angeles in modern history. Later, in 1976, she became the first director of the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women (LACAAW).
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Robins, Joan
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Ohio; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Activist; Community leader
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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| Locations discussed: |
Arizona; California; Los Angeles, CA; North America; Ohio; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Arizona; California; Feminism; Feminism--Los Angeles (Calif.); Los Angeles, CA; North America; Ohio; Oral history; United States; University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Women--Services for; Women--Social conditions
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Crenshaw Women's Center
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035345-38912
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