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Contains 43 Results:
July 26, 1968 (reel #16-2)
Item — Box: 1, item: 23
Identifier: Item 23
Scope and Contents
The number of attendees at any given meeting was usually quite high--perhaps as many as 30 or more persons--representing an extremely wide variety of backgrounds, including city officials, educators, administrators, religious leaders, law enforcement, journalists, and minority community spokespersons. The agenda for this meeting's dialog was law enforcement, both the San Diego Police Department and County Sheriff Department. The first topic was the image of the police and sheriff's...
Dates:
1967-1969
July 12, 1968 (reel #15-1)
Item — Box: 1, item: 22
Identifier: Item 22
Scope and Contents
The mayor, city manager and other key officials were absent from this meeting, which was off-schedule from the July 4th holiday. Some new folks from the newly formed Chula Vista Human Relations Commission attended. The dialogue concerning the schools was continued, with topics ranging from drop-out rates, lack of motivation, the urgent need for Mexican-American teachers, staff, and administrators, and the infusion of minority history and culture into the curriculum. The San Diego schools...
Dates:
1967-1969
June 7, 1968 (reel #14-1)
Item — Box: 1, item: 20
Identifier: Item 20
Scope and Contents
This meeting took place 2 days after the assassination of Robert Kennedy. In a prior meeting, an Interim Committee of the CIC drew up a bill of particulars detailing specific concerns with the education of minority students in San Diego. This bill was then presented to the board of education for its response. At this meeting, school personnel responded to it, presenting several initiatives and programs being implemented to address those concerns, namely, the quality of instruction,...
Dates:
1967-1969
May 3, 1968 (reel #13-1)
Item — Box: 1, item: 18
Identifier: Item 18
Scope and Contents
This audiotape includes two separate meetings, the first a meeting of the CIC's Steering Committee, which met briefly to discuss the future role of CIC, and whether it would become a "coalition" with various task forces selected to carry out specific actions decided by the group. The committee hoped to quickly engage the growing number of citizens who had expressed interest in volunteering their time and talents to the issues of racism and discrimination in San Diego. This meeting ends at...
Dates:
1967-1969
May 17, 1968 (reel #13-2)
Item — Box: 1, item: 19
Identifier: Item 19
Scope and Contents
The meeting opened with announcements noting the absence of the San Diego mayor and city council representatives, and also many members of the African-American minority, who had reportedly stayed out in recognition of Malcolm X's birthday. Topics of discussion included problems with the educational system, notably its failure to carry out desegregation, but most felt the discussion was meaningless since members of the Board of Education were also out today due to an administrative meeting....
Dates:
1967-1969
August 2 ,1968 (reel #16-1)
Item — Box: 1, item: 24
Identifier: Item 24
Scope and Contents
The dialog continued on education issues and the San Diego Unified School District. A report was presented by the schools regarding the English as a Second Language (ESL) program, which was primarily a demonstration program in the district, designed to identify methods, techniques and materials, and also to increase the involvement of Mexican-American parents. Most responses to the presentation reflected that not nearly enough was being done, and eventually embraced the idea that the primary...
Dates:
1967-1969
November 1, 1968 (reel #02-2)
Item — Box: 1, item: 29
Identifier: Item 29
Scope and Contents
The CIC continued its discussion about housing issues in San Diego and spent about half this meeting brainstorming possible short- and long-term solutions. Those with welfare assistance were among the hardest hit, since welfare supplements failed to keep up with the increasing rents. Suggestions ranged from temporary housing in military quarters to the development of city property for trailer parks. Due to legal questions, it was decided that this issue was beyond the scope of CIC, and that...
Dates:
1967-1969
January 10, 1969 (reel #04-1)
Item — Box: 1, item: 32
Identifier: Item 32
Scope and Contents
George Hall, deputy superintendent of the San Diego Unified School District, delivered a statement to the CIC listing steps the District had taken in response to these dialogues, but made a controversial request that he not be questioned about any point in the statement. Common responses to his statement acknowledged that some steps had been taken, but not enough had been done and things were not moving quickly enough to stem a potential uprising by citizens, and particularly youth, in the...
Dates:
1967-1969
December 20, 1968 (reel #03-1)
Item — Box: 1, item: 31
Identifier: Item 31
Scope and Contents
This meeting was another continuance of discussions about education. George Hall, deputy superintendent of schools, was present to hear concerns and to answer questions. He explained several special programs underway at schools in depressed areas of the city, which were initiated as a result of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, to assist those students with the greatest needs. Some were appreciative of the efforts being made, while others warned that the schools were not...
Dates:
1967-1969