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Dera R Williams

Dera R Williams

Oakland
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History

  • Archivist
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  • Author
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  • Blogger
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  • Curator
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  • Historian
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  • Preservationist
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  • Public Speaker
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  • Researcher
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  • Undergraduate
Branches
Cultural History, Demographic History, Genealogy, Oral History, Political History, Public History, Social History
Topics
Education, Colonialism‎ & Imperialism‎, Family & Childhood, Family Lineages, Human Rights & Social Movements, Race & Ethnicity, Rural History, Religion, Urban History, Women, Gender & Sexuality
Regions
African American, Native American, Nigerian
Periods
1900-1910 AD, 1910-1920 AD, 1920-1930 AD, 1930-1940 AD, 1940-1950 AD, 1950-1960 AD, 1960-1970 AD, 1970-1980 AD, 1980-1990 AD, 1990-2000 AD

Projects

In My Backyard: Stories of Growing Up in Oakland-A Preview

These are stories of my growing up in Oakland in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Enchantments- A Great Migration Story

Four Black women migrate from four different southern states in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where they all settle in the Oakland area. They meet and forge a sisterhood as mothers, wives and career women through trials and tribulations.

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