Greg Goldin Collection (Interviews): Blacklisted Teachers
in Los Angeles,
1977
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
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Register of the Greg Goldin Collection (Interviews):
Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles,
1977
Collection number: MSS 041
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 Bazar
- Date Completed:
-
Nov. 2000
- Encoded by:
- Julia Bazar
© 2000 Southern California Library for Social Studies and
Research. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Greg Goldin Collection (Interviews): Blacklisted
Teachers in Los Angeles,
Date (inclusive): 1977
Collection number: MSS 041
Creator:
Goldin, Greg
Extent:
1 box, 15 audio
cassettes
1 linear foot
Repository:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and
Research
Abstract: Audio cassettes of interviews with people
connected with the McCarthy Era Blacklisting of Los Angeles area
teachers.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
Materials were donated by Greg Goldin
Access
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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.
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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
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obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Greg Goldin Collection (Interviews):
Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles, Southern California Library for Social
Studies and Research, Los Angeles, California.
Biography
Historical Context: Blacklisting and the McCarthy Era
The individual collections within the Blacklisted Teachers in Los
Angeles Collection share a common historical framework, the Anti-Communist
fervor of the Cold War Period and what is commonly referred to as the McCarthy
Era. After the end of World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union
engaged in the ideological battle known as the Cold War. The identification of
communists and other radicals through the use of federal and state legislative
investigative committees and the punishment of those identified through firing
and blacklisting comprised a successful U.S. tactic. The investigations spread
from federal and other government employees to the entertainment industry, the
professions, labor unions, and the private sector. The major players in these
campaigns included, on the Federal level, Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House
Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). In California major players included
California State Assemblyman (later State Senator) Nelson S. Dilworth, and
State Senators Jack B. Tenney and Hugh M. Burns. All three served on the Joint
Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities in California (1945) and first
Tenney and later Burns chaired the [California] Senate Fact-Finding Committee
on Un-American Activities. Of special note are the Levering (1952) and Dilworth
(1953) Acts. The Levering Act made refusal to fully cooperate with any state
committee grounds for firing a teacher and the Dilworth Act gave local school
boards investigating authority and also required that all teachers sign an oath
denying any Communist affiliation.
Collection
Greg Goldin interviewed several prominent people involved with the
McCarthy Era blacklisting of Los Angeles teachers, for a term paper in
Humanities at the University of California Berkeley in 1977. Goldin's interest
in this subject stemmed, in part, from the personal experience of his parents,
Leon and Martha Goldin, with the blacklisting of teachers in Los Angeles. Leon
Goldin was a blacklisted teacher. (See Abraham Minkus Papers for information on
an appeals case that included Leon Goldin as Defendant and Appellant.)
Scope and Content
This collection contains the original interview tapes (15),
transcripts of the interviews, copies of the term paper, and background and
draft material. The interviewees are Frances Eisenberg, Abe and Libbie Minkus,
Vicki Fromkin, Florence Sloat, Arlyne Shepro, Robert Lees, Sam Rosenwein, June
Sirell, Seymour and Connie Bennett, Jack Chasson, and Charles Sassoon.
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: 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: Los Angeles Teachers Union Collection,
Date: 1933-1982
Physical Description:
2 boxes
Contributing Institution:
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).
Box-folder 1/1
Background Material,
1977
Box-folder 1/3-1/4
Transcripts [2 folders],
1977
Box-folder 1/5-1/6
Transcripts -- Duplicates [2 folders],
1977
Box 2, cassette Tape 1
Frances Eisenberg/Abe and Libbie Minkus,
n.d.
Box 2, cassette Tape 2
Abe and Libbie Minkus,
n.d.
Box 2, cassette Tape 3
Abe and Libbie Minkus/Vicki Fromkin,
n.d.
Box 2, cassette Tape 4
Frances Eisenberg/Florence Sloat,
n.d.
Box 2, cassette Tape 5
Florence Sloat/Arlyne Shepro,
n.d.
Box 2, cassette Tape 6
Arlyne Shepro/Jack Chasson,
n.d.
Box 2, cassette Tape
11
Seymour and Connie Bennett,
n.d.
Box 2, cassette Tape
12
Seymor and Connie Bennett/Charles Sassoon,
n.d.
Box 2, cassette Tape
14-15
[Albert?] Maltz Lecture at Stanford and Interview on
Blacklist [2 tapes],
n.d.
