Downloadable Content

Download audio
Other

Tillmon, Johnnie (audio interview #2 of 5)

INTERVIEW DESCRIPTION - This is the second of five interviews with Johnnie Tillmon, conducted some seven years after the first, and is the first in her full oral history. Like the subsequent interviews in this 1991 oral history, the interview was conducted in her home in the Watts/Willowbrook neighborhood of south Los Angeles. Tillmon was warm and friendly and rapport was easily established with her. Aware of her historical importance, she viewed the oral history recordings as something might help her write her own book. Electrical interference in the house created problems in the audio quality of the interview, resulting in feedback and background static particularly in the first two tapes sides. Periodically, the static cuts off the audio for short intervals of time. The audio quality improves during the third tape and there are very few problems with the fourth tape. n.d.