Dorothy Lazard Tells Her Own Oakland History
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The Importance of Reading in the 1970s
I discovered this library when I was 10. It is an amazing thing that you can just pick any book up at the library and read it. You know? I mean, I think we obviously would take it... It's a profound institution. And every country in the world should have one. Yeah. So it was literally mind blowing, mind expanding without the use of peyote or anything. There were black dolls. We really were coming slowly but, suretly, into the mainstream. For the first time I had black teachers in the 70s. They were showing us that it's great to wear your hair natural. ... Just be free in a way that I think previous generations
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