Reminiscences of Harry Lee Kingman : oral history, 1972.

Biographical Note

YMCA counselor, lobbyist.

Scope and Contents

Youth in China and America; education; professional baseball; army service, World War I; 1916-57, Stiles Hall (University Y.M.C.A., Berkeley); 1921-27, International Y.M.C.A.; China; Shanghai Incident; 1943-45, Director, West Coast Fair Employment Practice Commission; with Ruth Kingman, Citizens' Lobby: 1957-70 in Washington, from 1970 in Berkeley; 1960 Kennedy presidential campaign; civil rights, peace.

Subjects

• China--History--Republic, 1912-1949.
• Civil rights workers--Interviews.
• Discrimination in employment.
• Interviews.
• Kingman, Harry L. (Harry Lees), 1892-
• Levenson, Rosemary, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Lobbying.
• Lobbyists--Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• University of California, Berkeley.
• YMCA of the USA.

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