American History TV in Oakland, California

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2015 LCV Cities Tour” in Oakland, California, from October 31-November 5 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Comcast Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2.

Programs included in the American History TV segment were:

Dorothea Lange Photography and Social Commentary

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Pullman Porters

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Industrialist Henry Kaiser

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Port of Oakland

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Black Panther Party in Oakland

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History of Oakland’s Chinatown

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