James Daugherty Collection, 1940s-1950s.
Files on the Los Angeles and California CIO, the Utility Workers Union and the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union, 1940s-1950s. Daugherty helped to found the Utility Workers Union in Los Angeles, worked as an organizer for Mine, Mill and United Eletrical Workers Unions, and was a leader in the Los Angeles industrial union movement. He served briefly as president of the California CIO in the late 1940s before the national CIO revoked the state CIO's charter in a purge of Left-led unions in the CIO. (See also California CIO Council Union Research and Information Services Collection.)

Angela Davis Academic Freedom Case and Defense Committee Collection, 1969-1980.
Papers, 1969-1971, documenting the academic freedom campaign in defense of the rights of Davis, African American activist and open member of the Communisty Party, to retain her position as a UCLA philosophy instructor; and records of several Los Angeles area defense committees formed to support her following her indictment (and subsequent acquittal) in connection with the August, 1970, Marin County (California) Courthouse shooting at a trial of one of the Soledad Brothers.

First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles Collection, 1938-1981. Fragmentary papers documenting the committees, programs, and finances of the church, led by social activist minister Stephen Fritchman.

Emil and Tassia Freed Collection, 1915-1987.
Papers of the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research founder Emil Freed and his wife Tassia pertaining to their political interests, their longtime association with the Communist Party, Emil's 1949 imprisonment in the Lincoln Heights Jail (for picketing during the Hollywood Studio Strikes), and their personal devotion to one another.

Frontline Photograph Collection, 1979-1990.
Photographs used to illustrate the issues and concerns of the editorial staff of Frontline, a bi-monthly newspaper published between 1983 and 1990. Founded in Oakland, California, the political perspective underlying Frontline was developed in the theoretical journal Line of March, and its mission was to represent the interests and causes of the working class.

Leo Gallagher Collection, 1922-1963.
Papers of a longtime civil liberties lawyer and activist in the International Labor Defense pertaining to several of the cases in which he was involved (the Sacramento Criminial Syndicalist Trial, the defense of George Dimitroff in the Reichstag Fire Trial, the prison treatment of J.B. McNamara, convicted in the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times), and to Gallagher's several campaigns for public office at the state and local (Los Angeles) level in California.

Guatemala Information Center Collection, 1980s-1992.
Documents, posters and photographs from a Los Angeles organization that supported human rights in Guatemala and Guatemalan refugees in L.A.

Saul Halpert Papers, 1960-2000.
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.

Hollywood Studio Strike Collection, 1945-1947.
Flyers, clippings, and strike papers, including the daily Picket Line issued during the strike of the Conference of Studio Unions against the major Hollywood studios.

Shevy Wallace Healey Papers (CIO Los Angeles Organizing), 1938-1962.
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 also one folder of material on the Wesley Robert Wells Case.