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Deborah Franklin, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Deborah Franklin, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings
Deborah Franklin shares stories of her early life in San Bernardino, her experiences with racism at the University of Redlands, and her journey as a councilwoman and Mayor of the City of Banning. She places a great emphasis on her role models, including her Grandmother Eula Saville, who was one of the first Black families to own land in The Valley Truck Farms. She expresses gratitude to her biggest supporters, talks about the lessons she learned in her political involvement, and her strong calling to serve her community.
Lois Carson (July 2021), Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Lois Carson (July 2021), Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings
Lois Carson moved to San Bernardino in 1951 when she was transferred to Norton Air Force Base, where she worked on early computers. She discusses housing segregation in San Bernardino, and shares stories of activism to stop blockbusting in the Rialto bench in 1966. Lois Carson discusses her work in War on Poverty in San Bernardino, observations of the city’s active community action groups, as well as her leadership in the Riverside Community Action Agency where she helped set up the fair housing council, ran Upward Bound, energy programs and other programs to empower and serve poor people. She remembers …
James Yuille, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
James Yuille, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings
James Yuille describes his experience growing up in Los Angeles, California, living near the Watts Riots. He had friends involved in the riots and was close enough to witness what was going on, but never partook. His parents were both involved in the efforts of World War Two; his mother was a Rosie the Riveter and made bombs, and they were both very against their son being drafted into The Vietnam War, hence leading him to attend higher education. James Yuille went to the University of Redlands through affirmative action and he shares what university life was like back then …
Cheryl Brown, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Cheryl Brown, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings
Cheryl Brown describes growing up in Pittsburgh and Washington D.C. before moving to San Bernardino in the late 1950s. She describes her experiences facing racial and gendered barriers at San Bernardino High School and struggles finding work in the city where Black people were excluded from most jobs. She also shares many positive memories of growing up in a vibrant Black middle class neighborhood on the westside of the city, stories of key community leaders, the Black History Parade, NAACP, NCNW and memories of Black businesses in the area. She discusses her memories of St. Paul A.M.E. Church, and how …
Denice And Otis Clopton, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Denice And Otis Clopton, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings
Denice Clopton described her childhood neighborhood and friends in the Valley Truck Farms along with her legal career working in downtown San Bernardino and the discrimination she faced growing up. Otis Clopton describes his experience moving to San Bernardino from the south, becoming a business owner, and working with the NAACP, the Masons and Black Future Leaders to support Black communities in the I.E.
Lorna Carry, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Lorna Carry, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings
Lorna Carry was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1956. In the 60s her family moved to the Inland Empire when her father was transferred to the Norton Air Force Base. She reminisces about her childhood experiences growing up in Rialto where her parents faced housing discrimination, economic disparities, and a lack of neighborhood racial diversity. During her time at the University of California, Riverside, she was involved with the Black Student Union where she addressed racial diversity on campus. She witnessed racism shift into a form that targeted people of color economically. Her time as a paralegal at the …
Pastor Anthony W. Green And Bishop Dr. Jackie L. Green, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Pastor Anthony W. Green And Bishop Dr. Jackie L. Green, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings
Pastor Anthony W. Green and Bishop Dr. Jackie Green discuss their long leadership in Second Baptist Church of Redlands. They both grew up in black dominated communities and experienced a culture shock when they came to Redlands, CA in 1983. They were disappointed to see the lack of black people in Redlands and wanted there to be black role models for their children in education and law enforcement. The Green’s were able to create a sense of community for Black people in Redlands through the Second Baptist church, where Anthony served as a pastor. Second Baptist was the first African …
Brian Townsend (November 10, 2016), Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Brian Townsend (November 10, 2016), Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings
Brian Townsend discusses his experiences growing up on the Westside of San Bernadino where he attended a Freedom School and was a part of some of the first desegregated classes. Education continued to be of importance throughout his life. It was a value that remained through highschool while taking advanced placement exams, and while pursuing a business degree at USC. He describes the importance of family and the legacy his father, Art Townsend, has left for his family and the community through the foundation of the Precinct Reporter. Brian Townsend remembers his early work as a kid working to lay …
Acquanetta Warren, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Acquanetta Warren, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings
Acquanetta Warren discusses how she first became involved in local politics, in her struggles with the Compton School Board, how the 1992 Rodney King Uprising drove her to move to Fontana, her involvement in Fontana local politics, and her ultimate path to becoming Mayor of Fontana.
Dina Walker, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Dina Walker, Wilmer Amina Carter Foundation
Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings
Dina Walker talks in-depth about her decision to run for a position on the Rialto Unified School Board and the process of getting started as a politician. She shares her emotional response when she was endorsed by the organizations San Bernardino Central Committee, Democratic Women’s Club, and the Teacher’s Association. Dina Walker talks about her business, BLU Foundation, which helps kids succeed educationally and how her experience in that work gave her the qualifications and confidence to run for the school board. Ratibu Jacocks asks her about historic Black political leaders in the region and tells her how they could …