The Elaine Black Yoneda Collection is divided into eleven series:

Series I. Unions and Union Activities

Series II. Political Activities

Series III. Labor Trials/Bail/Defense

Series IV. Japanese Americans

Series V. Correspondence

Series VI. Buchman Family

Series VII. Yoneda Family

Series VIII. Oral Histories and Interviews

Series IX. Articles, Clippings, Remembrances

Series X. FBI Files

Series XI. Vivian McGuckin Rainieri Research Materials

Rose Elaine Buchman was born in Connecticut to Nathan Buchman and Mollie Kvetnay, who had met as child laborers in a Russian match factory. Elaine was raised in a predominantly Jewish section of Brooklyn, New York, in a strongly pro-labor (and non-religious) environment. In 1920, the family moved to the San Diego area and in 1924 to Los Angeles. A "spoiled and ornery child," Elaine did not realize till age 15 that her parents actively supported the Russian revolution and related causes --which were apparently of no interest to the teenager. She quit high school in her senior year and took her first job with an elegant residential hotel, where Elaine maintained her own sartorial elegance while the world protested the convictions of Tom Mooney, Warren Billings, J.B.McNamara, Sacco and Vanzetti.See Series, " Labor Trials/Bail/Defense."See Series, "Japanese American Wartime Relocation."See Series, "Correspondence," Folders labeled, "Letters to Karl, 1942-43," and "...1944-45."

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Collection is open for research.