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Alice McGrath Collection, 1940s-1970s. Papers documenting the donor's involvement, along with Carey McWilliams and others who were part of the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee of the 1940s, in a community campaign that successfully lobbied for the reversal of the convictions of Mexican-American youth in a murder case in which media and public attention was fueled by racism and sensationalism. Ben Margolis and John McTernan Collection, ca 1940s-1970s. Legal papers relating to several significant civil liberties cases handled by these L.A. attorneys, including defense of the Southern California leadership of the Communist Party, as well as records of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lawyers Guild which they helped found. Mobilization for Democracy Collection, late 1940s. Papers of a coalition of liberals and leftists who organized events and campaigns to protest raciscm and anti-Semitism from the American right, including the appearance of Gerald L.K. Smith in L.A. Edward Mosk Collection, 1940s. Papers of the Progressive Citizens of America and the Independent Progressive Party which ran progressive candidates locally and nationally (the 1948 Henry Wallace presidential campaign) in the period 1946-1948. Seymour Myerson vs. City of Los Angeles Collection, 1971-1982. Papers related to Myerson's successful suit (handled by the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California) against the Los Angeles Police Department for its unlawful surveillance of Myerson, a retired architect and social activist. New Jewish Agenda, Los Angeles Chapter Records, 1979-1991. 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 was committed to working at the grassroots level on programs for the Jewish people in the United States, Israel, and other Jewish communities that differed from the dominant policies of the Israeli government and the United States national Jewish establishment. This collection is comprised of the working papers of the Los Angeles chapter and Western Regional office of the NJA, organized in 1979 and lasting through the early years of the 1990's. Nicaragua Task Force Collection, 1980s. Papers of an organization that supported the Sandinistas in Nicaragua through publications and outreach events in Los Angeles. Peace Action Council Collection, 1960s-1970s. Papers of a Los Angeles peace coalition focused primarily on organizing protests against the Vietnam War. Alexander Pennes Papers (Committee for Medical Freedom Records), 1946-1968. 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. Abe Plotkin Papers (ILGWU), 1924-1980. 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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