Leon Richardson: Berkeley Culture, UC and University Extension

Interviewee(s):

Richardson, Leon

Interviewer(s):

Fry, Amelia

Title:

Leon Richardson: Berkeley Culture, UC and University Extension

Abstract:

Education, Michigan, Berlin; digital multiplication; Latin department, UC Berkeley; 1900s culture, artists, and concerts on the West Coast; founding Berkeley Public Library; early years of University Extension; promotion of "Lifelong Learning"; labor education, prison education; Berkeley mayoral election, 1943; comments on Phoebe Apperson Hearst, Warring Wilkinson, John Dewey, John Muir, William Keith, Hermann Grimm, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Martin Kellogg.

Subject area(s):

Education, University of California

Interview date(s):

1962

Copyright year:

1962

Project:

Education and University of California - Individual Interviews

Oskicat record:

b11234847

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Rights:

Richardson, Leon. "Leon Richardson: Berkeley Culture, UC and University Extension." Interview by Amelia Fry in 1962. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1962.