Oral History: Nina Serrano
Oral History
Interviewed at her home in the Vallejo, CA in 2016 by LisaRuth Elliott and Chris Carlsson
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Poet and activist Nina Serrano, interviewed in 2016, describes how magical the 1965-67 period was, what a great environment of solidarity and cultural ferment it was in which to raise her children.
Video: Shaping San Francisco
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Nina Serrano, longtime activist and poet, describes how she got her start as a poet and writer and joined the Good Times collective, writing for it along with her husband and son... which led her to re-adopt her original last name!
Video: Shaping San Francisco
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Nina Serrano, interviewed in April 2016, describing the evolution of the Bay Area Latino poetry scene from 1968 through the El Sexto Sol conference at Stanford and the many luminaries who contributed to it all.
Video: Shaping San Francisco
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Nina Serrano, interviewed in April 2016, describes how she organized a protest up Market Street to City Hall, demanding that the U.S. government stop restricting travel to Cuba and other locales.
Video: Shaping San Francisco