| LC control no. | n 83126714 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dellums, Ronald V., 1935-2018 |
| Variant(s) | Dellums, Ron, 1935-2018 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | California |
| Birth date | 1935-11-24 |
| Death date | 2018-07-30 |
| Place of birth | Oakland (Calif.) |
| Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House Democratic Party (U.S.) University of California, Berkeley |
| Profession or occupation | Mayors Civil rights workers Legislators Lobbyists Authors |
| Found in | His Defense sense, the search for a rational military policy, 1983: CIP t.p. (Rep. Ronald V. Dellums) LC data base, 6-20-83 (hdg: Dellums, Ronald V., 1935- ) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Dellums, Ronald V., Ronald Vernie Dellums; U.S. Representative, autobiographer / memoirist; born 1935 in Oakland, California, United States; spent two years in the U.S. Marines; associate degree, Oakland City College (1958), Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco State College (1960); master's in social work, University of California at Berkeley; worked tirelessly as a psychiatric social worker in San Francisco and the Bay Area; his work at the Youth Opportunity Center at Bay View-Hunters Point placed him alongside youth activists involved in the civil rights and Black Power movements; elected to Berkeley's city council (1967); his congressional campaign in 1970 for California's Eighth District (later the Ninth) positioned him in direct opposition to President Richard Nixon's support of the Vietnam War and regressive domestic policies; chaired the Congressional Black Caucus (1989 to 1991); sworn as a mayor of Oakland, California in January 2007) New York times WWW site, viewed July 31, 2018 (in obituary published July 30: Ron Dellums; b. Ronald Vernie Dellums, Nov. 24, 1935, Oakland; d. early Monday [July 30, 2018], Washington, aged 82; son of a longshoreman who became one of America's best-known black congressmen, a California Democrat with a left-wing agenda that put civil rights and programs for people ahead of weapons systems and warfare; became a lobbyist after retiring from Congress; mayor of Oakland, 2007-2011; returned to Washington and resumed lobbying there after his mayoralty) |
| Associated language | eng |
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