Finding Aid for the Alexander Saxton Papers, 1846-1990 bulk 1936-1990
Finding Aid for the Alexander Saxton Papers, 1846-1990 bulk 1936-1990
Collection number: 1697
UCLA Library, Department of Special CollectionsManuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff, August 1992
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé, June 2004
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, June 2004
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
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Hull House, Chicago: 1938-1940
Drawings and block prints for Hull House Magazine, 50th anniversary brochure.
Writings. 1938-1980
1938-1940
The road to Damascus.
Harvest home.
Trucker.
The second raters.
The night before the war.
Cave's hollow.
Democracy on West Madison Avenue.
Scope and Content Note
Under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Conversation on Fourteenth Street.
Pittsburgh.
Steel town.
Notes on a point in eternity.
Radio play [untitled].
Class poems for Exeter Review and limericks.
1939-1940
Notes on a point in time.
Boxcars [notes].
1936-1943
An isle in the sea.
1938-1943
Defiance.
1936-1943
The storekeeper.
The wrong town.
“Education in democracy” - written for Common Ground. 1941.
For the younger generation.
1936-1941
The foreman.
1941-1943
“Stop, look & listen” - New York Daily Worker
July 1942.
August 1942.
September 1942.
October 1942.
November 1942.
December 1942.
January 1943.
February 1943.
March / April 1943.
1943[?]
Discrimination on the railroads.
No Date
Notes by Emma Balchunas on Chicago race riots of 1919.
1944-1945
Shipping - notes, articles on Marseilles, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires.
1945
The Albatross - ship newspaper for the S.S. Champ Clark.
Note
1945-1950
Bright web - deleted chapters.
1949-1954
The voyage of the Andrew Rogers.
The woman who made Rich Bar famous by Mary Wright.
When I felt like some watcher of the skies.
Vacation for two.
Rose Sakaala's vacation.
Over here it's different.
1954-1060
The captive year.
Crying with their little mouths.
Coming of age in Carrolswood Garden.
The heart need never be fatal.
Masquerade.
The last days of Christmas.
Just call me killer.
Note
The formula story.
Tickets to the ballet.
The Internment.
On the road to Mojave.
First ascent.
Rixie.
On the last day of Christmas.
The Academy revisited.
Redbook (January 1959).
Saturday Evening Post (June 1, 1957).
Chateleine (June 1960).
Stories by Alexander Saxton.
1959-1960
“A day's log of Olympus” & “Top of the mountain to you.”
1958-1959
To dance in the bower.
1949-1950
The city in the sea.
1959-1960
In the holy city.
Casa Bottarelli.
1941-1945
Grand crossing - reviews.
Grand crossing.
Scope and Content Note
Great Midland - correspondence with Harper's.
1944-1945
Great Midland.
Scope and Content Note
Great Midland - reviews.
Great Midland - publication abroad.
1950-1959
Writer's Workshop Magazine.
1955-1962
One tenth of a nation (TV documentary) and correspondence with Negro Historical and Cultural Society.
The letter writer - play for California Labor Theatre.
One-act play [untitled].
Book reviews and correspondence, and fundraising letter, Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
1948-1960
Contracts for Bright Web in the Darkness and In the Holy City (not published).
1959
Bright Web - reviews.
1960-1961
“Genteel apartheid” - published in Frontier (August 1961), and related material.
1962-1967
“Caesar's Column” in American Quarterly. 1967, and related material.
1963-1970
Unpublished papers.
1968-1975
Indispensable enemy - correspondence with publishers and others.
1967-1975
Indispensable enemy - reviews and correspondence, and Commonwealth Club award.
1970-1980
Race in the house of labor - final typescript and correspondence.
Labor Movement. 1941-1943
1941-1942
Clippings and brochures.
1941-1943
Chicago Committee on Railroad Employment - press releases and related material.
Family Papers: 1846-1943
Letters.
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC): 1948-1959
U.S. State Department denial of passport and transcript of Saxton HUAC testimony.
Political activity: 1948-1959
Printed material re Harold Sawyer, Smith Act, deportation of William Heikkila.
Correspondence: 1950-1960
General correspondence.
UC Berkeley: 1962
UC Berkeley - admissions materials, M.A. and Ph.d. degrees.
UCLA. 1976-1990
1970-1976
“Class organization in a racially segmented society” - UCLA colloquium paper, Asian American Studies.
1979
Review of UCLA Theatre Arts Department.
1970-1980
Correspondence with and re Ronald Takaki, UCLA and UC Berkeley.
Correspondence - publishers.
1980
Chinese American Cultural Society - related material, including conference address and correspondence.
U.S. Immigration Committee hearings - testimony.
USSR list of “Higher School” readings in American literature.
1976-1980
“Historical explanations of racial inequality” - published in Marxist Perspectives.
1979-1981
“Saxton's late proletarian-triptych” by Frederick Stern, published in Mid-America (VII).
1981
“Race and racism, class and class consciousness.”
Note
1978-1980
NEH grant for project that became Rise and Fall of the White Republic.
1980-1990
A view from the garden - and related material.
Correspondence with and re Don Nakanishi.
“Racial trajectory of the western hero” and “The new world order and the Rambo Syndrome”. Published in Amerasia Journal. 1984, 1991.
Correspondence with publishers re The White Republic.
1970-1990
Correspondence - journals - miscellaneous.
Correspondence - Pacific Historical Review.
Correspondence - American Quarterly.
Correspondence, memos, reviews.
Letters to newspapers.
Manzanar - photos and address. 1990.
Reviews of books and correspondence.