Correspondence and Clippings
Scope and Content
Series contains Roos's correspondence and clippings files and typescripts of articles Roos wrote for various periodicals.
Roos's correspondents include municipal, state, and federal government officials, his sisters, Claire and Frances Roos, and
Jewish organizations in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Most of the correspondence present in these files is incoming to
Roos; however, copies or carbons of Roos's outgoing correspondence are also occasionally present. Roos's files on USC document
his tenure as USC's advisor on community relations and include clippings, correspondence, and memoranda to and from USC staff
and faculty. Also included in this series are Roos's address book, address card files, and folders of rosters of members of
various organizations.
Box 6
Awards and Recognitions
Scope and Content
Series contains correspondence, ephemera, and other papers pertaining to awards and recognitions received by Joseph Roos.
Awards given to Roos include the 1981 Paul Lund Award from the Public Relations Society of America, the 1979 USC Journalism
Alumni Award, and the 1988 Human Relations Award from the Mayor of Los Angeles. Also included in this series is Roos's files
from when he served on the Awards Committee for the 1986 JFC Awards.
Map-case 5, Drawer 4, Box 6
Personal Papers
Scope and Content
Series contains photographs and biographies of Roos. Also included in this series are transcripts of oral histories given
by Roos and his appointment books for the years 1987-1989.
Box 6-7
Exhibits
Scope and Content
Series contains clippings, correspondence and ephemera pertaining to exhibits of Nazi and anti-Semitic materials in Southern
California.
Box 7
Plays, Radio Scripts and Screenplays
Scope and Content
Series contains manuscript and typescript drafts of plays, radio scripts and screenplays written by Roos.
Book-length Manuscripts
Scope and Content
Series contains research files, manuscripts, and typescripts for Roos's book on F.K. Ferenz, a member of the German Bund in
Los Angeles who distributed Nazi propaganda from his bookshop in Los Angeles. Also included in this series are manuscripts
of two other (also unpublished) works on similar topics and Roos's correspondence with Dr. Leonard Pitt, with whom Roos was
writing a work tenatively titled
Under the Crooked Cross.
Box 8-9
Research Files
Scope and Content
Series contains Roos's research files on various topics related to the Nazi party, white supremacy groups in the United States,
or anti-Semitism in the United States. Files include correspondence, copies of source material, and Roos's notes on the materials.
Publications
Scope and Content
Series contains publications and copies of publications by Roos, including the News Research Service (NRS) newsletters, the
Summary Report on Activities of Nazi Groups and Their Allies in Southern California, published by the Americanism Committee in 1938, and typescripts of a few journal-length articles. Also present are various
periodical publications collected by Roos, including
Common Ground,
The American Vindicator,
The Free Press and
Propaganda Analysis, and printed ephemera and pamphlets on human rights and freedoms, white supremacy and anti-Semitism.
Box 9
News Research Service (NRS)
Box 10
Summary Report on Activities of Nazi Groups and Their Allies in Southern California & Copied Publications
Box 10-12
Periodicals and Printed Ephemera
