Finding Aid for the Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Papers Ca. 1930 - 1970

Processed by Michael Stone.

Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA

UCLA

Chicano Studies Research Center Library

144 Haines Hall

Box 951544

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1544

Phone: (310) 206-6052

Fax: (310) 206-1784

URL: http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/

Descriptive Summary

Title: Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Papers,

Date (inclusive): Ca. 1930 - 1970

Collection number: 6

Creator: Lopez, Ron 1930 - present day

Extent: 2 linear feet

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA

Los Angeles, California 90095-1490

Abstract: Materials in this collection represent three chronological periods: 1920s - 1930s; the early 1940s; and the period ranging between 1969 - 1978.

The 1920s materials are primarily secondary materials from Journals. Much of the 1940s materials are primary, focusing on the sleepy lagoon case and include letters involving the Los Angeles Police Department, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee as well as original magazine and newspaper clippings.

The 1970s materials consist of Lopez's time as a UCLA student including his papers, personal essays and academic writing. Subjects range from the Chicano Movement to sociological research.

**Please note that accents have been eliminated inorder to accomodate and facilitate the use of all types of web browsers.

Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can contact the research center at www.chicano.ucla.edu

Physical location: As of November 2005, collection is stored at the Chicano Studies Archive, 180 Haines Hall, UCLA. In the future this collection will be stored off site at UCLA's Southern Regional Library Facility.

Language of Material: Collection materials in English, Spanish

Access

Access is available by appointment for UCLA student and faculty researchers as well as independent researchers. To view the collection or any part of it, please contact the CSRC at http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/

Publication Rights

For students and faculty researchers of UCLA, all others by permission only. Copyright has not been assigned to the Chicano Studies Research Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist and/or the Librarian at the Chicano Studies Research Center Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. Please contact the CSRC at http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Papers, 6, Chicano Studies Research Center, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles.

Acquisition Information

Papers donated by Ronald W. Lopez to the Chicano Studies Research Center, 2003. Deed on file at the CSRC Archive, 180 Haines Hall, UCLA.

Biography

Ron Lopez has had a long career as an educator in Southern California. He has held teaching posts at UCLA, Occidental College, Pasadena City College, and Claremont College in Claremont California. Ron Lopez has served the community as a drug counselor as well as a tax referee. He has also been a consultant in advertising as well as being in the food business.

Scope and Content

Materials in this collection represent three chronological periods: 1920s - 1930s; the early 1940s; and the period ranging between 1969 - 1978.

The 1920s materials are primarily secondary materials from Journals. Much of the 1940s materials are primary, focusing on the sleepy lagoon case and include letters involving the Los Angeles Police Department, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee as well as original magazine and newspaper clippings.

The 1970s materials consist of Lopez's time as a UCLA student including his papers, personal essays and academic writing. Subjects range from the Chicano Movement to sociological research.

**Please note that accents have been eliminated inorder to accomodate and facilitate the use of all types of web browsers.

Researchers who would like to indicate errors of fact or omissions in this finding aid can contact the archivist at archivist@chicano.ucla.edu

The collection is organized into the following series:

Series 1. Sleepy Lagoon Research Papers
Series 2. Related Research Papers
Series 3. UCLA Research Papers
Series 4. Correspondence
Series 5. Images

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

Los Angeles Police Department

Pachuco

Sleepy lagoon

Zoot Suit

Zoot Suit Riots

Container List

Series 1. Sleepy Lagoon Research Papers

Box 1, Folder 37

Ron Lopez Papers 1943

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material

Scope and Content Note

Photocopy

1p

"A Challenge"

Essay about Zoot Suit Murders

Mexican Voice Magazine

Box 1, Folder 38

Ron Lopez Papers Oct - Nov 1938

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

4p (+ 1 copy page)

"Analysis of Our People"

Mexican Voice

V.1, #5

Box 1, Folder 39

Ron Lopez Papers Aug. 1938

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

1p

"Are We Proud of Being Mexicans?"

Mexican Voice

Box 1, Folder 40

Ron Lopez Papers July - August 1939

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

1p

"Diferencia en la Esfera de Accion de Los Padres y Sus Hijos en Este Pais"

by Dora Ibanez

The Mexican Voice

Note

+ Related notes

Box 1, Folder 41

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

5p

"Immigration From Mexico"

by C.M. Goethe

3p

"Mexican Immigration in the Southwest"

by Kenneth L. Roberts

Box 1, Folder 42

Ron Lopez Papers Dec. (Christmas) 1938

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

"A Challenge to the American Girl of Mexican Heritage"

by Dora Ibanez

The Mexican Voice

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 43

Ron Lopez Papers Christmas 1938

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

"Negroes Prove Worth Despite High Tale of Opposition"

Manuel de la Raza

The Mexican Voice

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 44

Ron Lopez Papers July 1938

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

"Nosotros"

Manuel de la Raza

The Mexican Voice

July 1938

Box 1, Folder 45

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

"Pachuco: An American Spanish Argot"

7p

University of Arizona Bulletin

Box 1, Folder 46

Ron Lopez Papers [ca. 1943?]

Physical Description: Papers:

Scope and Content Note

t.m.s.

2p

"Resolution On Sleepy Lagoon Case"

Submitted by:

United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers

Food Processing Local

United Furniture Workers of America

In. Union, Mine, Mill and Smelters Workers

Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America

Box 1, Folder 47

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Papers:

Scope and Content Note

6p

t.m.s.

"Sinarquismo Is The Only Salvation of Mexico"

N.A.

Box 1, Folder 48

Ron Lopez Papers Jan - Feb 1939

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

2p

"Social Conditions of The Mexican People In General"

by Paul Coronel

Mexican Voice

Box 1, Folder 49

Ron Lopez Papers [1930]

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

7p

"The Alien in Our Midst"

by Kenneth L. Roberts

Box 1, Folder 50

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Papers: Printed: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

8p

"The Case of Sleepy Lagoon"

The Pattern of Violence

(North From Mexico, by McWilliams)

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 51

Ron Lopez Papers 1930

Physical Description: Papers: Printed: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

"The Howl For Cheap Mexican Labor"

by Major F. Russel Burnham

The Alien in Our Midst

Box 1, Folder 52

Ron Lopez Papers 1943

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

"The Pachuco Problem"

by Paul Coronel

The Mexican Voice

1943

Note

(with red marks)

Box 1, Folder 53

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Papers:

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.ms

Unnamed MS about

"Sleepy Lagoon Mystery"

by Guy Endore

Box 1, Folder 54

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material

Scope and Content Note

Citizen's Committee For Defense of American-Mexican Youth

"Nuestra Lucha Apenas ha Comensado!"

Box 1, Folder 55

Ron Lopez Papers 1944

Physical Description: Papers:

Scope and Content Note

8p

t.ms.

The Belvedere Coordinating Council

Minority Group Committee

1943-1944

Box 1, Folder 56

Ron Lopez Papers Nov. 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

Unknown Publication

"Habla Un Buen Amigo de Mexico"

Box 1, Folder 57

Ron Lopez Papers Jan. - Feb. 1939

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

"Social Conditions of The Mexican People In General"

Paul Coronel

Mexican Voice

Box 1, Folder 58

Ron Lopez Papers Sept. 1938

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

reprint of Letter:

"Let Us Then Stand For Education..."

Box 1, Folder 59

Ron Lopez Papers Nov. 1938

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

Mexican Voices

V.1 #5

Box 1, Folder 60

Ron Lopez Papers n.d. [ca. 1944]

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.l.

From: Youth Committee

For The Defense of

Mexican American Youth

To: Henry A. Wallace

Vice President of the United States

n.d.

Los Angeles

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 61

Ron Lopez Papers July 1956

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy and

Photocopy of Microfilm

Scope and Content Note

"Zoot Suiters And Mexicans:Symbols in Crowd Behavior"

Ralph H. Turner and Samuel J. Surace

American Journal of Sociology

Note

(with a.ms on verso)

Box 1, Folder 62

Ron Lopez Papers Feb. 1940

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopies

Scope and Content Note

3 photocopies

"Where is The Mexican Youth Conference Aiming?"

The Mexican Voice

Note

+ Photocopy A.ms Notes

Box 1, Folder 63

Ron Lopez Papers 1921

Physical Description: Papers: Photocopy of Map

Scope and Content Note

Map Showing Location of Mexicans In Los Angeles"

Note

(+ Microfilm copy)

Box 1, Folder 64

Ron Lopez Papers 1943

Physical Description: Papers: Photocopies

Scope and Content Note

9p

t.ms.

(2 Photocopies)

"Findings And Recommendations

of The Grand Jury of Los Angeles County For 1943,

Based Upon its Inquiry into Juvenile Crime and Delinquincy In That County"

Box 1, Folder 65

Ron Lopez Papers 4 Oct. 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Photocopies

Scope and Content Note

6p

t.ms

(2 photocopies)

"Excerpts From The Decision

of The Second District Court

of Appeal of The State of

California In the Sleepy Lagoon Case"

Entered October 4, 1944

Box 1, Folder 66

Ron Lopez Papers 1 Nov. 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

La Resolucion del Caso de la Laguna Dormida"

Unknown Publication

Box 1, Folder 67

Ron Lopez Papers 1 Nov. 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material

Scope and Content Note

"Wendell Wilkie, Antiracista"

1 Nov. 1944

(2 copies)

Unknown Publication

Box 1, Folder 68

Ron Lopez Papers 11 Dec. 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material

Scope and Content Note

"The Sleepy Lagoon Case"

by Heinz H.F. Eulau

The New Republic

Note

(2 copies) +Microfilm copy/copy

Box 1, Folder 69

Ron Lopez Papers 21 June 1943

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

"The Zoot-Suit Riots"

The New Republic

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 70

Ron Lopez Papers 31 Jan. 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

"Justice, California Style"

The New Republic

Box 1, Folder 71

Ron Lopez Papers June 21, 1945; Aug. 24, 1942; Sept. 7, 1942

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material/Photocopies

Scope and Content Note

Zoot Suits and Service Stripes:

Race Tension Behind The Riots"

The Nation

21 June 1945

Nation Excerpt

24 Aug 1942

Newsweek Excerpt

7 Sept 1942

Box 1, Folder 72

Ron Lopez Papers n.d. [ca. 1944]

Physical Description: Papers:

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.ms.

Citizen's Committee For The Defense of Mexican American Youth

n.d. [ca. 1944]

Box 1, Folder 73

Ron Lopez Papers [1942]

Physical Description: Papers:

Scope and Content Note

4p

t.ms

"Information For the 1942

Los Angeles County Grand Jury"

(An Analysis of 1941 Juvenile Delinquincy Records...)

Box 1, Folder 74

Ron Lopez Papers [ca. 1945]

Physical Description: Papers:

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.ms.

Victory in the Sleepy Lagoon Case

Box 1, Folder 87

Ron Lopez Papers 4 Aug. 1942; 14 Jan. 1943

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material

Scope and Content Note

Los Angeles Times Editorials

1. Professional Mollycoddlers and Gangs

2. Jury's Gang-Case Verdict Disproves Persecution

Box 1, Folder 88

Ron Lopez Papers 1942

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

Los Angeles Times - Reports

During The Sleepy Lagoon Murder

Box 1, Folder 91

Ron Lopez Papers June 1942

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

T.ms.

1p (Photocopies)

Mexican Population as of June 1942

Box 1, Folder 92

Ron Lopez Papers Aug. 1938

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material

Scope and Content Note

2p

Printed/t.ms Photodopies

Mexican Voice

V.1 #3

Aug. 1938

Box 1, Folder 93

Ron Lopez Papers 27 July 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Bulletin

Scope and Content Note

t.ms

4p

Council For Civic Unity

Box 1, Folder 94

Ron Lopez Papers 15 Nov. 1943

Physical Description: Papers: Memo

Scope and Content Note

t.ms. Memo

3p

"Trip To Folsom and San Quentin"

by Alice Greenfield

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 95

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Papers: Memos

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.ms.

Memo From

The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Box 2, Folder 2

Ron Lopez Papers [ca. 1940-1943]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

t.ms.

5p

"Imformation For The 1942 Los Angeles County Grand Jury" (plus statement of Walter H.C. Laves)

4p

"A Tabulation of Facts on Conditions Existent in Hick's Mexican Camp" Foreward

37p

Index - Papers Read in Meeting held October 8, 1942, called by special Mexican Relations Committee of the Los Angeles County Grand Jury.

Box 2, Folder 3

Ron Lopez Papers 4 October 1944

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material

People vs. Zammora

District Court of Appeal, Second District, Division 1, California

4 Oct 1944

Box 2, Folder 5

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

t.ms.

"Statistics"

[Re: Crime Among the Mexican Population]

Box 2, Folder 6

Ron Lopez Papers [ca. 1942]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

7p

t.ms.(photocopy)

"Report of Special Committee on Problems of Mexican Youth of the 1942 Grand Jury of Los Angeles County"

1p

t.l. photocopy

Report of citizens committee

From: Committee Members

To: Honorable Robert H. Scott

n.p. [ Los Angeles ]

10 December 1942

Box 2, Folder 7

Ron Lopez Papers [ca. 1939 - 1942]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

1. Printed Material

The Mexican Voice - "The Mexican People of El Paso Show Us the Way "

November, December 1939

2. 4 page

t.ms photocopy

"Summary of Recommendations and progress to date of the Special Committee on Older Youth Gang Activity in Los Angeles and Vicinity"

3. 11 page

t.ms photocopy

additional pages related to the "Summary of Recommendations and progress to date of the Special Committee on Older Youth Gang Activity in Los Angeles and Vicinity"

Box 2, Folder 10

Ron Lopez Papers 29 January 1944

Physical Description: Paper

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material Photocopy

"This is the Story of A Crime." Daily News, Los Angeles, Ca.

29 Jan. 1944

Sleepy Lagoon Defense.

Box 2, Folder 13

Ron Lopez Papers September 1938

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material Photocopy

Mexican Voice

vol. 1 no. 4

September 1938

Box 2, Folder 17

Ron Lopez Papers October 1943

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material Photocopy

"Zoot Suits: An Interpretation" by Fritz Redl.

Survey Midmonthly

Box 2, Folder 18

Ron Lopez Papers 1942

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Printed Photocopy

The Sleepy Lagoon Case

Prepared by the Citizens Commitee for the Defense of Mexican - American Youth.

Los Angeles, CA 1942

Box 2, Folder 20

Ron Lopez Papers [ 4 October 1944 ]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material Photocopies

People vs. Zammora et al. cr 3719

Box 2, Folder 21

Ron Lopez Papers [ ca. 1944 ]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material Photocopy

"The Sleepy Lagoon Mystery" by Guy Endore

Box 2, Folder 22

Ron Lopez Papers June 1943

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material Photocopy

Zoot Suit Riots

Life Magazine, June 1943

Box 2, Folder 23

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

12p

t.ms.

Paper Presented by Consul Aguilar

Box 2, Folder 26

Ron Lopez Papers 8 October 1942

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

7p

t.ms.

"Testimony of Carey McWilliams, Chief, Division of Immigration and Housing, Department of Industrial Relations, State of California, Before the Los Angeles county Grand Jury, October 8, 1942."

Box 2, Folder 27

Ron Lopez Papers 1943 - 1944

Physical Description: Paper

Scope and Content Note

5p

t.ms.

The Belvedere Coordinating Council - Minority Group Committee

Box 2, Folder 28

Ron Lopez Papers n.d. [ca. 1944 ]

Physical Description: Paper

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.ms.

"Citizens Committee for the Defense of Mexican - American Youth"

Box 2, Folder 29

Ron Lopez Papers 29 January 1944

Physical Description: Paper

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material Photocopy

1p

"This is the Story of a 'Crime'"

Daily News, Los Angeles, CA 29 January 1944

Box 2, Folder 31

Ron Lopez Papers July 1939

Physical Description: Paper

Scope and Content Note

2p

a.ms notes on the Sleepy Lagoon case

Box 2, Folder 33

Ron Lopez Papers Aug 1938

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Materials: Photocopy

Scope and Content Note

Mexican Voice

Vol.1, #3

Box 2, Folder 34

Ron Lopez Papers 21 June 1945

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: photocopy

Scope and Content Note

3p

Zoot Suits and Service Stripes:

Race Tension Behind The Riots

Newsweek

21 June 1945

Box 2, Folder 35

Ron Lopez Papers 27 July 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Bulletin

Scope and Content Note

2p

T.MS.

Bulletin

Council For Civic Unity

Box 2, Folder 36

Ron Lopez Papers n.d. [ca. 1944]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

3p

T.MS.

Hollenbeck Youth Council Meeting

Box 2, Folder 37

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.[ca. 1945]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

t.ms.

1p

"Appeal Court's Conclusion

On Race Prejudice"

Box 2, Folder 38

Ron Lopez Papers 1 Nov. 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Printed Material: Editorial

Scope and Content Note

"La Resolucion del Caso de la Laguna Dormida"

1 NW. 1944

Box 2, Folder 39

Ron Lopez Papers n.d. [ca. 1944]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

t.ms.

1p

Sleepy Lagoon

"High Court Says: Not Guilty!!"

Box 2, Folder 42

Ron Lopez Papers 14 Feb. - 6 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: Photocopies of Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Duplicates of:

Sleepy Lagoon related

Correspondence to

James Stephen-Dimitroff

Box 2, Folder 45

Ron Lopez Papers 2 June 1971

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

28p

t.ms

"The Zoot Suit Riots"

by Elizabeth C. Fahr

2 June 1971

Series 2. Related Research Papers

Box 1, Folder 1

Ron Lopez Papers ca. 1960

Physical Description: Papers: graphic map

Scope and Content Note

Chart I -- County distribution of white persons of Spanish surname, 1960

Note

(2 copies)

Box 2, Folder 15

Ron Lopez Papers n.d. [ ca. 1950 ]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material photocopy

"Pachuco: An American - Spanish Argot."

University of Arizona Bulletin.

Box 2, Folder 19

Ron Lopez Papers 21 June 1943

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material

"U.S. At War" plus t.ms remainder of article

Box 2, Folder 24

Ron Lopez Papers [ n.d ]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

t.ms.

4p

"The Problem of Crime among the Mexican Youth of Los Angeles" by Harry Hoijer

Box 2, Folder 25

Ron Lopez Papers 8 October 1942

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

7p

t.ms

Testimony of Guy T. Nunn, Field Representative, Minority Groups Service, War Manpower Commission, Before the Los Angeles county Grand Jury"

Box 2, Folder 30

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Paper

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material Photocopy 2 pages

"The Alien In our Midst" by Roy L. Garis

Box 2, Folder 40

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

t.ms.

8p Photocopy

"Statistics"

Ed. Duran Ayros

Foreign Relations Bure

Box 2, Folder 44

Ron Lopez Papers 12 Aug. 1942 - 4 Nov. 1943

Physical Description: Papers: Photocopies

Scope and Content Note

Photocopies of t.ms Materials

Box 2, Folder 47

Ron Lopez Papers 1921

Physical Description: Paper: Map

Scope and Content Note

Map of Tuberculosis cases in Los Angeles

Series 3. UCLA Research Papers

Box 2, Folder 1

Ron Lopez Papers n.d. [ca. 1975]

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Study 1748

Questionaire and related papers regarding T.V. viewing habits

Box 2, Folder 4

Ron Lopez Papers 1 January 1968

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.ms.

Rep. Brown Bilingual Bill Enacted.

Press Release with a note

Box 2, Folder 14

Ron Lopez Papers 25 July 1967

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material Photocopy

"Bilingualism: An American Resourse"

Congressional Record House

Box 2, Folder 32

Ron Lopez Papers 25 July 1967

Physical Description: Paper

Scope and Content Note

Printed Material

2p

Congressional Record

"Bilingualism: An American Resource"

Series 4. Correspondence

Box 1, Folder 2

Ron Lopez Papers 2 Feb. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Roger Arnebergh

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

From the Office of the City Attorney Criminal Division Los Angeles

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 3

Ron Lopez Papers 16 Jan. 1968

Physical Description: Papers:correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.

From:Marvin Braude

To:Chief Thomas Reddin

From the City Council of the City of Los Angeles City Hall

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 4

Ron Lopez Papers 16 Jan. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.

From: Marvin Braude

To:Walter C. Thiel

From the City Council of the City of Los Angeles City Hall

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 5

Ron Lopez Papers 22 Jan. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.

From: Marvin Braude

To: Roger Arnebergh

From the City Council of the City of Los Angeles, City Hall

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 6

Ron Lopez Papers 29 Jan. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Walter C. Thiel

Marvin Braude

From the City of Los Angeles Mayor's Office (Sam Yorty)

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 7

Ron Lopez Papers 7 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Dale Smith

To:The Honorable Thomas H. Kuchel

From The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Box 1, Folder 8

Ron Lopez Papers 25 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Carey McWilliams (Editor, The Nation)

To: [James Stephen-] Dimitroff

N.Y. N.Y.

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 9

Ron Lopez Papers 26 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: D.R. Millican, Capt. Commander

To: James Stephen Dimitroff

From the Dept. of Calif. Highway Patrol

Box 1, Folder 10

Ron Lopez Papers 1 Feb. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.l.s.

From: Hugh C. Keenan

To: Honorable George Brown

From The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Box 1, Folder 11

Ron Lopez Papers Feb/April 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s. (photocopy)

From: T.F. Janes, Capt. Commander

Public Affairs Division

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

2 Feb. 1969

From the City of Los Angeles, CA.

1p

t.l.s.

From: T.F. Janes

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

5 Apr. 1968

Los Angeles, Ca.

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 12

Ron Lopez Papers 19 Jan. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Raul Gonzalez Galarza

(Consul General of Mexico)

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 13

Ron Lopez Papers 16 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Marvin Braude

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

City Council of The City of Los Angeles City Hall

Box 1, Folder 14

Ron Lopez Papers 20 Feb. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Robert Baker

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

Chief Administrative Officer, County of Los Angeles

Box 1, Folder 15

Ron Lopez Papers 20 Feb. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Ruth Fleishman

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

KNXT CBS Television Stations

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 16

Ron Lopez Papers 29 Jan. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: F.G. Fimbres, Chief Detective Division

To: James S. Dimitroff

County of Los Angeles

Office of the Sheriff

Box 1, Folder 17

Ron Lopez Papers 28 Feb. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Ignacio E. Lorenzo Jr.

Publisher

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

La Opinion

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 18

Ron Lopez Papers 16 Feb. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Ben Margolis

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

Sherriff's Department

Los Angeles, Ca.

Note

(2 copies)

Box 1, Folder 19

Ron Lopez Papers Jan/March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Raul Gonzalez Galarza

Consul General of Mexico

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

Los Angeles

19 Jan. 1968

Note

and related correspondence

Box 1, Folder 20

Ron Lopez Papers 7 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr.

Publisher La Opinion

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

Los Angeles, Ca.

Note

(plus copy)

Box 1, Folder 21

Ron Lopez Papers 12 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: J. Edgar Hoover

Director FBI

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

Washington, D.C.

Note

(plus copy)

Box 1, Folder 22

Ron Lopez Papers March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Dale Smith

(Congressional Reference Division)

To: The Honorable [Senator]Thomas H. Kuchel

Note

plus related correspondence

Box 1, Folder 23

Ron Lopez Papers 2 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Alice McGrath [Greenfield]

To: Mr. Dimitroff

Ventura, Ca.

Note

(plus copy)

Box 1, Folder 24

Ron Lopez Papers 6 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Carey McWilliams

Editor, The Nation

To: Mr. Dimitroff

N.Y. N.Y.

Box 1, Folder 25

Ron Lopez Papers 6 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Julian Nava

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

Board of Education, City of Los Angeles

Box 1, Folder 26

Ron Lopez Papers 4 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

a.l.s.

From:[Gerry] Fridore

To: Mr. Dimitroff

N.P. [Los Angeles, Ca.]

Box 1, Folder 27

Ron Lopez Papers 14 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.l.s.

From: Thaddeus G. Wasung

To: James Stephen-Demitroff

County of Los Angeles

Probation Department

Note

(plus copy)

Box 1, Folder 28

Ron Lopez Papers 11 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Harry Braverman

To: Mr. Dimitroff

Los Angeles, Ca.

Note

(with a. notes)

Box 1, Folder 29

Ron Lopez Papers 22 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Bernard Quint

Art Director, Life Magazine

To: James Dimitroff

New York, N.Y.

Box 1, Folder 30

Ron Lopez Papers 19 March 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: George Shibley

To: James Shibley

Long Beach, Ca.

Note

(plus copy)

Box 1, Folder 31

Ron Lopez Papers 2 Feb. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: T.F. Janes, Capt.

Office of Chief of Police

To: James Stephen-Dimitroff

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 32

Ron Lopez Papers 4 April 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Ben Margolis

To: James Stephen Dimitroff

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 33

Ron Lopez Papers 3 April 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: William H. Mills

Foreign Service Officer

To: James Stephen Dimitroff

Embassy of the United States in Mexico, D.F.

Note

(plus copy)

Box 1, Folder 34

Ron Lopez Papers 1 April 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Hank Quevedo

To: James Stephen Dimitroff

Office of District Attorney

Los Angeles, Ca.

Note

(plus copy)

Box 1, Folder 35

Ron Lopez Papers 30 Jan. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Walter C. Thiel

City Clerk

To: Honorable Marvin Braude

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 36

Ron Lopez Papers 27 Feb. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From:Harry Hoijer

To: Stephen Dimitroff

UCLA

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 75

Ron Lopez Papers n.d. [ ca. 1944]

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Carey McWilliams

Bella M. Joseph

Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee

To: Trade Unionists

n.d.

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 76

Ron Lopez Papers 24 Apr. 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p.t.l.s.

Photocopy

From: Robert W. Kenny

To: Reverend Joseph Gutierrez

24 April 1944

Sacramento, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 77

Ron Lopez Papers 25 July 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

photocopy

From: Chet Huntley

To: Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

Los Angeles, Ca.

25 July 1944

Box 1, Folder 78

Ron Lopez Papers Sept. [19]44

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s.

From: Carey McWilliams

To: All Delegates--Ca.

State C.I.O.

Convention, Sept '44

Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee

Los Angeles, Ca.

Sept. [19]44

Box 1, Folder 79

Ron Lopez Papers 20 Oct. 1943

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s. photocopy

From: Joe Marty

To: Delegate[s]

Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee

20 Oct. 1943

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 80

Ron Lopez Papers 24 Apr. 1944

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l.s. photocopy

From: Col. Vicente Peralto

To: Carey McWilliams

24 Apr. 1944

Consulado General Mexico

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 81

Ron Lopez Papers 12 Nov. 1942

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l. photocopy

From: Special Mexican

Relations Committee

(Harry F. Henderson)

To: Honorable Henry Stimson

Secretary of War

n.p.

12 Nov. 1942

Box 1, Folder 82

Ron Lopez Papers n.d. [ca. 1942]

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l. photocopy

From: Capt. Joseph F. Reed

To: Chief of Police

C.B. Horrall

Dept. of Police

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 83

Ron Lopez Papers 13 Aug. 1942

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.l. Photocopy (Partial)

From: C.B. Horrall

Chief of Police

To: Honorable Ernest W. Oliver

13 Aug. 1942

Dept. of Police

Los Angeles, Ca.

1p. (partial)

t.l. Photocopy

From: [Vernon Rasmussen]

To: Ernest W. Oliver, Foreman

Grand Jury, Los Angeles

12 Aug. 1942

Dept. of Police

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 84

Ron Lopez Papers 12 Aug 1942

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

4p

t.l. photocopy

From: Vernon Rasmussen

To: Ernest W. Oliver

Foreman, Grand Jury, Los Angeles

12 Aug. 1942

Dept. of Police

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 85

Ron Lopez Papers 20 Aug. 1942

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

1p

t.l. photocopies

From: Eugene W. Biscailuz

Sheriff

To: Ernest W. Oliver

20 Aug. 1942

Office of The Sheriff

Los Angeles, Ca.

Box 1, Folder 86

Ron Lopez Papers n.d. [ca. 1943]

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.l.

From:[The Undersigned Citizens of The Community of Los Angeles]

To: Foreman, Los Angeles County Grand Jury

n.d.[ca.1943]

[Los Angeles]

Box 1, Folder 89

Ron Lopez Papers 26 Oct. 1943

Physical Description: Papers: Memo

Scope and Content Note

1p (photocopies)

t.l.

From: Alice [McGrath] Greenfield

To: Bella Joseph

N.P. [Los Angeles?]

Box 1, Folder 90

Ron Lopez Papers 4 Nov. 1943

Physical Description: Papers: Memo

Scope and Content Note

4p

t.l. (Photocopy)

From: Wayne Parker

To: Charles Ellis (Labor Herald)

N.P.

Box 2, Folder 9

Ron Lopez Papers 20 November 1942

Physical Description: Letter

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence

1p

t.l. photocopy

From:Elmer Davis, Director office of War Information

To: Harry F. Henderson, Special Mexican Relations Committee.

20 November 1942, Washington, D.C.

Box 2, Folder 12

Ron Lopez Papers 31 May 1944

Physical Description: Papers

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence

1p

t.l.s. photocopy

From: Robert W. Kenny, Attorney General State of California, Dept. of Justice

To: Alice [Mc Grath] Greenfield, Execuitive Secretary, Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee

31 May 1944

Sacramento, CA.

Box 2, Folder 16

Ron Lopez Papers 14 February 1968

Physical Description: Letter

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence

1p

t.l.s

From: George E. Brown, Member of Congress

To: James Stephan Dimitroff

14 February 1968

Washington, D.C.

Box 2, Folder 41

Ron Lopez Papers 1 Feb. 1968

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

2p

t.l.s. photocopy

From: American Law Division

To: Honorable George Brown

Washington, D.C.

1 Feb. 1968

Box 2, Folder 43

Ron Lopez Papers 1942 - 1968

Physical Description: Papers: Photocopies: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

Photocopies

Arranged - Correspondence

(All Repeats of Correspondence In Box 1)

Box 2, Folder 46

Ron Lopez Papers 11 Apr. 1967

Physical Description: Papers: Correspondence

Scope and Content Note

5p

t.l.s.

From: [Guy Nunn?]

To: [Stephen]Dimitroff

11 Apr. 1967

N.P.

Note

Original (Missing Page)

+Photocopy

Series 5. Images

Box 2, Folder 8

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Photocopies

Scope and Content Note

Photocopy of group photograph

Box 2, Folder 11

Ron Lopez Papers n.d.

Physical Description: Paper

Scope and Content Note

Photocopy Illustration of Zoot Suiter by Delgado

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