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20th Century Organizational Files

An assembled collection of 20th century papers and ephemera from nearly 800 social action organizations, primarily based and/or active in Los Angeles and Southern California.

 
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Asociacion de Vendedores Ambulantes (Street Vendors Association) Records

This collection contains materials created or collected by the Asociacion de Vendedores Ambulantes [A.V.A.] also known as the Street Vendors Association, an organization, which mobilized the street vendors fight to legalize street vending in Los Angeles. It includes significant Spanish...

 
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Bass (Charlotta A.) Papers

The Charlotta Bass COLLECTION covers the period form 1924 to 1983 and arranged in three series: DRAFT AND MANUSCRIPT, BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL PAPERS and FINANCIAL RECORDS....

 
Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles Clipping Collection

Miscellaneous clippings concerning the Blacklisting of Teachers.

 
Blair (Naomi) Papers

The Naomi Blair Collection covers the period of the late 1930s to approximately 1970. It is arranged in three series: PERSONAL, EDUCATION and ORGANIZATIONS....

 
Bratt (Charles) Papers

This collection consists of the papers of Charles Bratt and Clarence Johnson, both employees of the World War II Era United States Employment Services (USES), part of War Manpower Commission. The documents deal with the work of the Committee on...

 
Bridges (Harry R.) Papers

The Harry Bridges Legal Collection contains the documents and supporting material for his deportation cases; there are also some documents that refer to a contempt case and some libel cases. These papers originated in the law office of one of...

 
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California CIO Council Union Research And Information Services Records

The records of URIS preserved at SCL cover the approximate period 1945-1955. They are arranged in a single alphabetical file. They are also identified geographically, primarily to highlight which files pertain to Los Angeles....

 
California Democratic Council Records

The collection contains records from the California Democratic Council (CDC), a statewide organization linking independent Democratic Clubs with the Democratic Party structure. The CDC organized conventions, ran issues conferences, endorsed candidates, and participated in other activities. Materials range from 1947...

 
California Eagle Photograph Collection

The collection is divided into six categories: Charlotta Bass; General; Individuals; Labor; Social Causes; and Society. Most of the photographs were taken for the . The collection dates from the late 1800s to the late 1950s. The later photographs were...

 
Canter (Harry) Papers

This is a very small collection of papers from Harry Canter, Secretary of Chicago Local 16 of the International Typographical Union. The largest portion of the papers are from the Northern California Committee of Trade Union Action and Democracy.

 
Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms

The collection is arranged into series: GENERAL FILE, CCPAF AND AFFILIATE ORGANIZATIONS, CCPAF FINANCES and NCAHUAC AND AFFILIATE ORGANIZATIONS....

 
Clewe (Belle P.) Papers

The bulk of the material in this collection derives from the 1931 incident at Fairfax High School in which Clewe was criticized for involving her students in disarmament issues. The first series, FAIRFAX HIGH SCHOOL, is comprised of this material...

 
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Daugherty (James) Collection

The papers described (two cartons) are part of a larger James L. Daugherty Collection at the Library. The priority was to process his labor papers that relate most to Los Angeles. They are primarily files he maintained while he was...

 
Davis (Angela) Academic Freedom Case & Trial and Defense Movement Materials

This collection holds 1 box which chronicles Angela Davis’ academic freedom case from the viewpoint of academia, and the Davis trial from the viewpoint of the movement to free her. The 2nd box holds press clippings from a variety...

 
Doyle (Dorothy) Collection: Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles (Interviews)

Radio interview program on the Blacklisting of Los Angeles Teachers.

 
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Eisenberg (Francis R.) Papers: Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles

Part of the larger Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles Collections, the Frances Robman Eisenberg Papers contain the personal papers of Eisenberg, a blacklisted Los Angeles teacher. The collection contains materials relating to Eisenberg's teaching and tutoring career, and involvement with...

 
Emma Lazarus Jewish Women's Clubs of Los Angeles Records

This is a collection of the records of the Emma Lazarus Jewish Women's Clubs of Los Angeles. This organization of secular Jewish women, most active in the 1950's through the 1970's, was dedicated to: promoting secular Jewish culture, advocating for...

 
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Fagan (Thomas) Collection: Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles (Interviews)

Audio cassettes and documents from interviews with Blacklisted Teachers by Thomas Fagan.

 
Farm Worker Organizing Collection

This is a collection of reports, writings, correspondence, union documents, fliers and clippings from individuals and organizations involved in the struggle for equitable wages and decent living conditions for farm workers in the United States during the 20th century.

 
First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles Records

The collection is arranged in four series: GENERAL FILE, COMMITTEE EVENTS, FELLOWSHIP FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE and DAVID SEIDMAN. A majority of the collection was donated by David Seidman, including his correspondence, the Drama Workshop notes (1954-1955), (he functioned as their...

 
Frank Wilkinson Papers

This is a collection of materials created and/or collected by Frank Wilkinson during the period 1929-1999. The bulk of the collection is comprised of correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings. Frank Wilkinson has spent the better part of his life directly...

 
Freed (Emil and Tassia) Papers

The Emil and Tassia Freed Papers are divided by series: PERSONAL, GENERAL POLITICS, CORRESPONDENCE, HEARING LOCAL 311, IAM and JAIL-1949....

 
Frontline Photograph Collecton

a bi-monthly newspaper, began in April 1983. Its mission was to represent the interests and causes of the working class under its masthead slogan On the Frontline in the Struggle Against War and Racism. The political perspective underlying was developed...

 
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Gallagher (Leo) Papers

The Leo Gallagher Papers are divided into five series. They are: PERSONAL, J. B. MCNAMARA, CASES, INVESTIGATIONS, and POLITICAL INTERESTS. Folder 1 in the PERSONAL series contains biographical material on Gallagher, a resume prepared during his 1949 campaign for the...

 
Ginsburg (John) Papers

This is a nine item collection of correspondence and writings of John Ginsburg. The IN correspondence is from the Communist Party and Peoples World. Ginsburg was critical of the positions taken by the American Communist Party during World War...

 
Gladstein (Richard) Papers

The Richard Gladstein Collection (1930, 1940-1950, 1961-1962, 1968-1969) contains papers, notes correspondence, pamphlets, transcripts and records of some of the trials and hearings with which he was either directly or indirectly involved. No particular trial or hearing is covered from...

 
Gluck (Sherna B.) Papers

The Sherna Berger Gluck collection is divided into three series. LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S MOVEMENT, WOMEN'S MOVEMENT - GENERAL, and COMMITTEE FOR JUSTICE....

 
Goldin (Greg) Collection: Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles (Interviews)

Audio cassettes of interviews with people connected with the McCarthy Era Blacklisting of Los Angeles area teachers.

 
Great Peace March Collection

The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament took place in 1986 starting in Los Angeles on March 1 and ending in Washington, D.C. on November 15. It was conceived by David Mixner, a professional organizer and political activist,...

 
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Halpert (Saul) Papers

Collection consists of the files, papers, and kinescopes of Saul Halpert, working journalist in the Los Angeles area from 1946 to 1999. Topics covered range from local to international politics, with a significant project on Los Angeles school integration.

 
Healey (Shevy Wallace) Papers : (CIO Los Angeles Organizing)

Materials related to CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) organizing activities in the 1930s and 1940s in the Los Angeles area, with a focus on the American Communications Association-CIO attempt to organize the Los Angeles Western Union Workers (1944-1945). There is...

 
Heist (Rev. A.A.) Papers

A small, but rich collection of correspondence, articles, clippings and sermon notes of Reverend Aaron Allen Heist, a Methodist minister driven by his Christian faith to lead a life of activism for social justice in the mid twentieth century.

 
The Hollywood Blacklist

The collection of clippings and pamphlets was brought together by library staff with items dating from 1947-2002 including materials documenting the 50th Anniversary in 1997, relating to the Hollywood Blacklist period 1947-1952. Newspaper and magazine articles of personal accounts, speeches,...

 
Hollywood Studio Strike Collection

This small collection is arranged alphabetically. It includes clippings from Los Angeles daily newspapers and the Hollywood trade papers, pamphlets, and a file of the October 1945-May 1947, a strike newsletter put out on a daily basis during most months...

Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection

The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection is comprised of 225 black and white photographs, which were produced by the Los Angeles Housing Authority during the 1940s and 1950s. These photographs depict images of public housing...

 
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The Integration Project : The Dorothy Doyle Collection

The Integration Papers (1970's) is an alphabetical subject collection. The series contains a wide range of material pertinent to The Project, including legal papers, newspaper articles, minutes of meetings, reports, and publications. This large archive documents the segregation of Los...

 
The Integration Project : The Jackie Goldberg and Sharon Stricker Collection

The Integration Papers (1970's) is an alphabetical subject collection. The series contains a wide range of material pertinent to The Project, including legal papers, newspaper articles, minutes of meetings, reports, and publications. This large archive documents the segregation of Los...

 
International Ladies Garment Workers Union Project Files

Research files primarily consisting of photocopies of primary and secondary sources compiled by Mary Tyler during her research for the Library's conference on the Los Angeles ILGWU and subsequent book, co-authored by John Laslett. Also contains tapes and transcripts of...

 
International Typographical Union Records

The collections are the partial records of five Los Angeles region International Typographical Union locals, specifically: Local 650 - Long Beach, Local 583 - Pasadena; Local 579 - Orange, Local 994 - Pomona/San Gabriel Valleys, and Local 862 - San...

 
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Jean Field Committee Records

These are records from the Jean Field Committee, which was formed in 1951 to aid Jean Field in her child custody appeal case. Field lost custody of her children in 1950 based only on the contents of two letters...

 
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Kaplan (Celeste S.) Papers

Papers of a 1930s student radical and Communist Party member. The collection covers her activities from her undergraduate debating career through her resignation from the party in 1958.

 
Kaufman (Anne and Michael) Papers

These papers document the Los Angeles based political activities of former husband and wife (Michael and Anne Kaufman), including their joint involvement with W.E.B. DuBois Clubs of America (1961-1966) and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees [AFSCME, AFL-CIO]...

 
Keats (Mark) Photograph Collection

The Mark Keats Photograph Collection consist of one and one-third cubic feet. Mark Keats, an amateur photographer and a long-time progressive took pictures of demonstrations, cultural, and social events in which progressives participated. The collection dates from the late 1940s...

 
Kenny (Robert W.) Papers

The collection is arranged by series: GENERAL FILE, FAMILY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY-JESSE W. CARTER, SUPREME COURT JUSTICE OF CALIFORNIA, STATE SENATOR CAMPAIGN-1950, LOS ANGELES MAYORAL RACE-1950, and DEPORTATION AND RELATED ACTIVITIES....

 
Krisitn Ockershauser Papers

These are papers of community organizer Kristin Ockershauser, primarily documenting efforts in the early 1970s organizing residents in two public housing projects in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles: the Park Western Organization for Positive Action (at Park Western)...

 
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Latino Community Justice Center Records

This is a collection of case files from the Latino Community Justice Center. Each of the case files documents a complaint regarding misconduct/abuse on the part of police or sheriffs department personnel or misconduct/abuse on the part of the Immigration...

 
Liberty Hill Foundation Collection

The Liberty Hill records donated to SCL are arranged in three series Grant Files, Donor-Advised Files, and San Diego Grants. Grant Files are Cartons 1-10; Donor-Advised Files, Cartons 11-12; and San Diego Grants, Carton 13. The Grant Files series proceed...

 
Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born Records

This is a collection of records from the Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (LACPFB), an organization devoted to preserving the democratic ideals of equality by defending the rights and liberties of the foreign born. The Committee was...

 
Los Angeles J. P. Stevens Boycott Committee Records

The office files of the Los Angeles J. P. Steven Boycott Committee, headed by Michael Linfield and Linda Paquette, document the strategies and activities of the national boycott campaign in Los Angeles against the textile manufacturer in the South, J.P....

 
Los Angeles Teachers Union Collection

Materials pertaining to the Los Angeles Federation of Teachers and its activities primarily during the 1940s and 1950s.

 
Los Angeles Women's Liberation Movement Collection

The collection is divided into three series: and ...

 
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McGrath (Alice Greenfield) Papers

This is a small collection relating to the career of social activist Alice Greenfield McGrath. The materials document her work as executive secretary with The Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, which successfully worked to free 17 young Mexican-Americans who were...

 
Minkus (Abraham) Papers: Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles

Part of the larger Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles Collections, the Abraham Minkus Papers contain the materials created or collected by Minkus, a blacklisted Los Angeles teacher. The collection contains materials relating to Minkus' dismissal and subsequent lawsuits, as well...

 
Miriam Sherman - Brooks Family Papers

The collection is comprised of the personal correspondence among Isador and Bessie Brooks; their three daughters: Miriam, Eleanor and Dorothy; Isador's father Joseph; and Miriam's daughter, during the first half of the 20th century. Isador and Miriam were Communist...

 
Mosk (Edward) Papers

The collection consists primarily of materials documenting the Progressive Citizens of America (PCA), Southern California Chapter and the Independent Progressive Party (IPP) in Southern California. Also in the collection are clippings pertaining to Upton Sinclair's EPIC (End Poverty in California)...

 
Myerson v. City of Los Angeles Records

The Myerson v. City of Los Angeles Records consist of materials collected by Seymour Myerson pertaining to his lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), LAPD Chief of Police Edward M. Davis, and LAPD...

 
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New Jewish Agenda, Los Angeles Chapter Records

The New Jewish Agenda (NJA), an activist national Jewish community organization, set out to be a progressive voice within the Jewish community and a Jewish voice within the progressive community. Most active in the decade of the 1980's, the NJA...

 
Nickerson Family, Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company

These are papers of William J. Nickerson, Jr., the company he founded, Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, and his son Victor A. Nickerson. The materials are comprised of correspondence, photographs and assorted business documents, fliers, brochures and newspaper clippings....

 
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Pennes (Alexander) Papers: Committee for Medical Freedom Records

The majority of this collection concerns the blacklisting of doctors and other medical professionals during the Cold War/McCarthy Era, particularly the dismissal of three doctors by the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles in December 1951.

 
Plotkin (Abe) Papers : (ILGWU)

Small collection of correspondence, photographs and clippings related to the personal and professional activities and concerns of Abe Plotkin, first organizer for the ILGWU in California (1922-1932), who went on to organize in Hawaii, Miami, the Midwest, and New York.

 
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Rosenberg (Ethel and Julius) Papers

The collection is arranged by series GENERAL FILE, ORGANIZATIONS, IRWIN EDELMAN-FYKE FARMER, MORTON SOBELL and the COMMITTEE TO RE-OPEN THE ROSENBERG CASE. It may be presumed that a majority of the collection is material from the Los Angeles Committee to...

 
Rozner (Sarah) Collection

The Sarah Rozner Collection was donated by Sherna Gluck in 1996. The Collection is divided into two series: UNION PAPERS (one record storage box) and PERSONAL PAPERS (two record storage boxes.)...

 
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Schnitzer (Ellie) Papers

The Ellie Schnitzer Collection is divided into five series: PARTY BUILDING, LINE OF MARCH, FRONTLINE POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS (FPO), CROSSROADS, and OTHER POLITICAL INTERESTS....

 
Seligman (William A.) Papers : (United Shoeworkers of America - Los Angeles)

This small collection consists of the personal and business correspondence of William A. Seligman, organizer of the Los Angeles local of the United Shoeworkers of America C.I.O.

 
Shaw (Robert) Papers

This collection consist primarily of scripts written by members of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization during World War II, and political speeches and spots written for the California Democratic Party in 1946 and for Henry Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign.

 
Sheldon (Kathleen) and Tarzynski (Stephen) Papers

The papers of husband and wife Stephen (Steve) Tarzynski and Kathleen (Kathie) Sheldon document their involvement with and the activities of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and its predecessor the New American Movement (NAM). The collection includes materials on...

 
Sloat (Florence M.) Papers: Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles

Part of the larger Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles Collections, the Florence Muriel Sloat Papers contain the personal papers of Sloat, a blacklisted Los Angeles teacher, including materials relating to Sloat's suit against the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC).

 
Spiegel (Ruth Altman) Papers

These papers document the professional and employment status of Ruth Altman Spiegel, a social worker, when she worked for the Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles and the School of Social Welfare at UCLA in the late 1940s and...

 
Standard Coil Organizing Campaign Collection : (UE vs. IUE-CIO)

Flyers and other materials pertaining to the fight between three unions, the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), the International Union of Electrical, Radio, & Machine Workers, Congress of Industrial Organizations (IUE-CIO), and the International Brotherhood of...

 
Stirner (Charles) Papers : (Southern California Waiters Alliance)

The collection documents the Southern California Waiters Alliance of which Charles Stirner served as Secretary-Treasurer in the 1950s and early 1960s. It also includes materials from the Joint Executive Board of the Culinary Workers and Bartenders International of which the...

 
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Tom Mooney Molders' Defense Committee Collection

This collection consists primarily of pamphlets, posters and other printed materials created or collected by the Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee, in their work to free Tom Mooney, a labor activist wrongfully convicted of bombing the 1916 Preparedness Day Parade...

 
Travis (Helen Levi) Papers

These are the personal papers of Helen Travis, a journalist, teacher and political activist. The collection includes correspondence, travel journals, travel and family photographs. The bulk of the collection is comprised of copies of FBI, CIA, State Department and...

 
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Union Files Collection

This is a collection of materials from over 150 unions spanning the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s. The variety of material types is immense including: by-laws, constitutions, contracts and agreements, newsletters, fliers, financial records, minutes, correspondence, reports, organizing...

 
United Anti-Nazi Conference Records

This is a small collection of correspondence, clippings and fliers from Aaron Kertman, the Executive Secretary of the United Anti-Nazi Conference in Los Angeles. The committee sponsored Mme. Sonja Branting in 1935 and William Francis Hare, Earl of Listowel...

 
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America Records

The collection consists of partial records of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). There is material from selected years of the national Executive Board and from early chapters of UE history (1940s-1960s). There is a large...

 
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Verdries (Ellen C.) Collection: Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles (Interviews/Papers)

Oral history interviews with three blacklisted teachers and Ph.D. Dissertation using this material.

 
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Wilkinson (Jean B.) Papers: Blacklisted Teachers in Los Angeles

Papers of Jean Benson Wilkinson, a blacklisted Los Angeles teacher. One folder.

 
Williams (Frances E.) Papers

The collection contains Frances E. Williams' personal papers from 1965 to 1995 relating to her professional career as an actress, personal/cultural interests, community involvements, and to a larger extent her political activism. The bulk of the material covers the years...

 
Winfield (Orilla) Papers

The collection papers are of Orilla Winfield, a Los Angeles County social worker. Materials consist of the correspondence from the Los Angeles County Department of Charities regarding the dismissal of Winfield in 1948 due to her refusal to sign...

 
Women for Legislative Action Collection

The Women for Legislative Action Collection (WLA) spans 25 years from 1952-1977 (no paperwork was found dated 1951). The collection, though not complete, gives a general overview of the organization's internal structure, constitution, statement of policy and platform, club activities...

 
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Los Angeles Chapter Records.

These are the records of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Los Angeles Chapter. The collection contains materials relating to the activities of the local membership and the administration of the Los Angeles executive board. The bulk of...