Pacific Islander Community Oral History Project: Interview with Dixie Riley

Titles: Pacific Islander Community Oral History Project: Interview with Dixie Riley (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Dixie Riley was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1951. She worked for most of her life as a human rights activist. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Dixie's early life and family history; education; growing up in Minnesota; being the only woman in school and at her job; working as a social activist; meeting her husband and adopting his children as her own; being involved in organizations particularly the Nation Organization of Women (NOW); protesting the Saint Paul Winter Carnival. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: As Dixie Riley passed away before the interview was to take place Dixie's sister Ellen Riley Miller and her daughters Mary J. Latu, and Helemine Latu narrated on her behalf.

Dates

• 04/25/2012 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Riley, Dixie
• interviewer: Zander, David

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 143
• Accession Number: AV2012.4.3

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Pacific Islander Community Oral History Project' <OH 143>

Quantity: 1.25 hours compact disc 47 pages transcripts

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:14:54 running time

Subjects

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