Social worker, political and community leader; during World War II a welder and at same time volunteer with Red Cross, USO, day care, Visiting Nurse Association, and NAACP; Democratic Central Committeewoman, Alameda County, California, for 18 years; instrumental in eliminating discrimination in the hiring of teachers in the Berkeley schools; in 1954 received "Fight for Freedom Award" from NAACP.
Rights: Access. Most transcripts and audiotapes are unrestricted. Some oral histories have restrictions which are noted in the inventory. An appointment is necessary to use the restricted audiotapes.
Written permission to quote from the transcript is required from the Director of the Schlesinger Library or the Director of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. The legal agreement with Frances Albrier stipulates that no one may use the oral history to write a full-length biography of her.