Los Angeles Teachers Union Collection,
1933-1982
Processed by Patricia Martinez and Julia B. Bazar
Southern California Library for Social Studies and
Research
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Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research. All
rights reserved.
Register of the Los Angeles Teachers Union Collection,
1925-1982
Collection number: MSS 047
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Los
Angeles, California
Contact Information:
- Southern California Library for Social Studies and
Research
- 6120 South Vermont Avenue
- Los Angeles, CA 90044
- Phone: (323) 759-6063
- Fax: (323) 759-2252
- Email: archives@socallib.org
- URL: http://www.socallib.org/
- Processed by:
- Patricia Martinez and Julia B. Bazar
- Date Completed:
-
Nov. 2000
- Encoded by:
- Julia Bazar
© 2000 Southern California Library for Social Studies and
Research. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Los Angeles Teachers Union Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1925-1982
Collection number: MSS 047
Extent:
2 boxes
1 linear
foot
Repository:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and
Research
Abstract: Materials pertaining to the Los Angeles
Federation of Teachers and its activities primarily during the 1940s and
1950s.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
This collection was compiled from materials found at the
Library.
Access
The collection is available for research only at the Library's
facility in Los Angeles. The Library is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday
through Saturday. Researchers are encouraged to call or email the Library
indicating the nature of their research query prior to making a visit.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Southern California Library
for Social Studies and Research. Researchers may make single copies of any
portion of the collection, but publication from the collection will be allowed
only with the express written permission of the Library's director. It is not
necessary to obtain written permission to quote from a collection. When the
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research gives permission
for publication, it is 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 by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Los Angeles Teachers Union Collection,
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles,
California.
Organizational History
The Los Angeles Teachers Union Collection is a found collection that
appears to be materials collected by the Los Angeles Federation of Teachers or
one of its officers.
The Los Angeles Federation of Teachers [LAFT] was founded in the
1930's as Local 430 of the American Federation of Teachers, CIO [AFT]. During
the McCarthy Era, the LAFT was expelled from the AFT for being too radical or
"communist controlled." Several members of the union were later blacklisted
including the long-time vice president, Abe Minkus, and newsletter editor
Frances Eisenberg.
Scope and Content
This collection contains periodicals, clippings, and subject files.
Most of the material relates to the blacklisting of its members during the
McCarthy Era. There are no minutes or official union documents in the
collection, except for an incomplete run of its newsletter,
The Los Angeles Teacher, and one notebook of notes from
meetings of the Teachers' Defense Committee.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into two series:
1. Subject Files, and
2. Periodicals.
Related Material at the Southern California Library for Social
Studies and Research
Title: Frances Robman Eisenberg: Blacklisted Teachers in Los
Angeles,
Date: 1928-1995
Physical Description:
4 boxes and 1 oversize box
Title: Abraham Minkus Papers: Blacklisted Teachers in Los
Angeles,
Date: 1945-1983
Physical Description:
4 boxes
Title: Florence Sloat Papers: Blacklisted Teachers in Los
Angeles,
Date: 1959-1991
Physical Description:
1 box
Title: Thomas Fagan Collection (Interviews): Blacklisted Teachers
in Los Angeles,
Date: 1989-1990
Physical Description:
3 folders, 5 audio cassettes
Title: Greg Goldin Collection (Interviews): Blacklisted Teachers
in Los Angeles,
Date: 1977
Physical Description:
1 box, 15 audio cassettes
Title: Ellen Chase Verdries Collection (Interviews/Paper):
Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles,
Date: 1992-1996
Physical Description:
1 (half) box
Title: Jean Benson Wilkinson Papers: Blacklisted Teachers in Los
Angeles,
Date: 1953-1955
Physical Description:
1 folder
Title: Dorothy Doyle Collection (Interviews): Blacklisted
Teachers In Los Angeles,
Date: 1986
Physical Description:
1 audio tape
Title: Clipping Collection: Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles,
Date: 1967-1982
Physical Description:
1 folder
A copy of the collection register is kept in the first box of the
collection (1/0).
Series 1.
Subject Files,
1925-1982, n.d.
Physical Description:
11 folders
Scope and Content Note
This series contains hearing transcripts, handwritten notes,
correspondence, photocopies, legal documents, and clippings. Of special note is
the photocopy of the transcripts from the Canoga Park High School Hearing on
the "subversive" tendencies of teachers Blanche Bettington and Frances
Eisenberg, and the Teachers' Defense Committee Meeting Notes.
Box-folder 1/1
Los Angeles Federation of Teachers,
1948-1957, n.d.
Box-folder 1/2
Canoga Park High School Hearing - Blanche Bettington and
Frances Eisenberg,
1946
Box-folder 1/4
Michael Kiwolsky - Handwritten Notes [by Minkus?],
n.d.
Box-folder 1/5
Florence Sloat - Suspension,
1959, 1962, n.d.
Box-folder 1/6-1/7
Teachers' Defense Committee
Box-folder 1/8
UNESCO,
1925, 1952-1953, n.d.
Series 2.
Periodicals,
1939-1980
Physical Description:
5 folders
Scope and Content Note
This series includes an incomplete run of the LAFT's newsletter,
The Los Angeles Teacher (1946-1956), and the earlier
(and later)
The Union Teacher. Also included are publications of
the California Teachers Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, and
others. The Miscellaneous Periodicals folder includes copies of
The Nation, and publications of the NEA [National
Educational Association], the Federation against Test Oath Legislation, the
Affiliated Teacher Organizations of Los Angeles [ATOLA], the Humanists, and the
like.
Box-folder 2/2
The California Teacher [California Federation of
Teachers],
1954
Box-folder 2/3
The Los Angeles Teacher [Los Angeles Federation
of Teachers, Local 430] -- incomplete run,
1946-1956
Box-folder 2/4
The Open Forum [American Civil Liberties Union of
Southern California],
1954, 1959
Box-folder 2/5
The Union Teacher [Los Angeles American Federation
of Teachers] -- scattered issues,
1939-1961
Box-folder 2/6
Miscellaneous Publications,
1951-1980
