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Phyllis was born in tulsa, oklahoma in 1924 and soon moved to northern california, graduated from u. C. Berkeley in 1946. She then embarked on a career in journalist, which led her to seattle, where she met del, and after, they moved to San Francisco. In 1955, she and del, along with other gay and lesbian couples, they began publishing the first lesbian publication the ladder, and remained in publication for 16 years, until 1972. That first year, they published lesbian woman. The couple made history as the first open lesbians to join the National Organization of women. They were also engaged i...

Us. My name is patricia. I did not finish college because i couldnt pass public speaking. But im standing here right now in city hall, speaking, because this is so important to me. As an older adult, i have been taking classes at the senior center. And ive learned a little bit of public speaking and also computers. And that is how i found out about it last night, googling and hearing the news. So this is very important to me that these classes stay. Ive been shocked and awed the last few years with whats been going on. I thought i was numb to a lot of the everymorning upsets. But today, i was ...

Through 70s was a Thriving Black Community known all over the world. It established black businesses. Black people werent allowed to leads outside the fillmore because of racism so we were a self sustaining community. The beautiful thing about the fillmore is that you had white, jewish, you had all people from all over the world coming to shop and spend their money in black businesses. It was really the togetherness that we all strive for. My daughter and my great uncle played jazz on fillmore. But the city, the federal government and the state through redevelopment agency, through the board o...

House, and the main work that we did was with the native american community, and at that time it was with the 558 federally recognized tribes was one group, but there was also a special group that they talked about, and that was urban indians. Those that lived in urban centers that were not recognized, that were not on the map. So we went out of the way with president clinton. We hosted the First National conference for native americans with president clinton, so thats something that i carrie with me to this day. So i really appreciate supervisor ronen, supervisor brown, addres well as the ent...

12 years. Theres a lot of issues on the table here today, reparations for destruction of the black community, i support nurses in the e. R. , i support taxi drivers, i still take taxis. I will not take uber or lyft because im a union person. It seems like the people here in San Francisco are hurting. And thats what im hearing from everybody today. So i know that you guys are not god, and you cant solve all the problems, but to the extent that you can, im asking for help. You are probably tired about hearing of city college needing help because weve been at this for eight years one way or anoth...