Dorothy Lazard, Recently Retired Head Librarian of the Oakland History Center, on Shining a Light on a City's Untold Stories

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Dorothy Lazard, who retired as head librarian of the Oakland History Center last month, has her own fan club, composed of grateful readers, patrons, journalists, professors, and writers. Her devoted following is the result of 21 years spent at the Oakland Public Library, the last dozen at the History Center where she meticulously and thoughtfully shed light on the untold stories of Oakland, its people and its history. We talk to Lazard about what it means to hold a city’s history and what she plans on doing next. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.7	From KQED.
0:56.1	From KQED.
1:09.3	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:11.5	What is service to a community?
1:13.6	Can't always define it, but I know it when I see it.
1:16.2	And if you went up to the top floor of the Oakland Public Library,
1:19.6	you'd find Dorothy Lazard, Doyen of Oakland History,
1:23.1	willing to help anyone who came through the door with a genuine interest in learning.
1:27.2	Her era as the head of the Oakland History Center came to a close at the end of December.
1:32.3	She joins us to talk about what she accomplished.
1:35.3	And then we'll remember Maya Angelou's groundbreaking
1:39.3	1968 KQED TV series, Black's, Blues, Black.
1:50.1	She'll be the first black woman immortalized on a quarter the U.S. Mint announced last week.
1:53.7	That's all coming up next on our MLK Day show after this news.
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