Oral History: Darrell Rogers
Oral History
Interviewed in the Mission District in 2016 by Chris Carlsson
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San Francisco native Darrell Rogers (b. 1945 in the Fillmore) describes his fraught relationship with the police. It starts out as a black child that just moved from the Fillmore to the Richmond where he is befriended by a white officer on horse patrol, but ends in a rather different place.
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San Francisco native Darrell Rogers describes his participation in the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) in 1962-64, an organization that helped organize the picket lines against job and housing discrimination during that era.
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San Francisco native Darrell Rogers (b. 1945 in the Fillmore) describes the Hunter's Point uprising from his point of view.
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San Francisco native Darrell Rogers describes how he first met the Black Panthers (he was a hippie African dancer at the time) and then offers a thoughtful look at the differences between Oakland and San Francisco, and how Oakland ultimately came to influence the San Francisco Panthers.
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San Francisco native Darrell Rogers (b. 1945 in the Fillmore) describes the African dance scene he participated in during the mid-1960s at Hippie Hill with congas and group drumming, and eventually, unexpected experiments.
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San Francisco native Darrell Rogers (b. 1945) describes how the mysterious Zebra killings led to repressive policies by the San Francisco police that he and his colleagues resisted with civil disobedience
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Longtime San Franciscan Darrell Rogers describes how his experience in social movements and as a worker at the commissary at the Presidio thrust him into a key role in the food distribution effort that became known as "PIN" or People In Need, a result of the SLA ransom demands made on the Hearst family.
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San Francisco native Darrell Rogers (b. 1945 in the Fillmore) gives his views of former Mayor Willie Brown, San Francisco's first African American mayor and one who used his connections to the community to great personal advantage.
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