Dorothy Lazard Tells Her Own Oakland History

KQED's Forum

KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dorothy Lazard has held the history of Oakland in her hands for years as the legendary historian and archivist at the Oakland public library. She’s now retired and telling her own story of growing up in Oakland and San Francisco in the late 60’s and early 70’s, which she writes was “the first best time to be a Black kid in America.” We talk to her about coming of age in the 1970’s Bay Area, the books and the libraries that fed her eager young mind, and her memoir, What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World. Guests: Dorothy Lazard, author, What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World; former head librarian, the Oakland History Center Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Support for KQED podcasts comes from San Francisco International Airport.
0:05.3	You can fly back in time and visit SFO's Aviation Museum and Library to learn about the history of commercial aviation.
0:12.2	No boarding pass needed. Learn more at flysafo.com slash museum.
0:17.4	Greetings, boomtown. The Xfinity Wi-Fi is booming.
0:21.1	Xfinity combines the power of internet and mobile.
0:24.3	So we've all got lightning fast speeds at home and on the go.
0:27.6	Learn more at Xfinity.com.
0:29.7	Restrictions apply.
0:30.4	Xfinity internet required.
0:31.5	Actual speeds vary.
0:33.5	From KQED.
0:34.7	Thank you. From KQED From KQED.
0:49.9	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
0:55.2	There's a kind of pat story about the Bay Area wave of the great migration of black Americans out of the South. The shorthand is that people came fleeing racist violence and moving towards
0:59.9	the shipyards of World War II. True enough, but the vast majority of Black Bay Area residents
1:05.9	didn't come during the war, but rather followed someone else and their family here in the next
1:10.4	two decades.
1:11.6	Dorothy Lazzard's new memoir, What You Don't Know Will Make a Whole New World, tells that story.
1:16.8	Of late 60s and early 1970s, San Francisco and Oakland,
1:21.4	from the perspective of a bookish, quirky black girl with a love for libraries,
1:25.4	movies, and discovering all that California could and could
1:28.7	not offer. She joins us after this news.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KQED, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KQED and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.