Health and Safety

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• Liberty Hill Foundation Collection: includes records of several Los Angeles community organizations funded by the Liberty Hill Foundation that work on health issues, including Citizens for a Better Environment, Harriet Tubman Free Clinic, Herself Health Clinic, L.A. Health Organizing Committee, Reproductive Rights Alliance, Southern California Interfaith Hunger Coalition, and Unity Fellowship Minority AIDS Project. See more info.


• South L.A. Documentation Collection: a community-created archive collection that includes materials on health in South Los Angeles, including the Watts Health Foundation.


• L.A. Subject Files: under several headings including Environment, Food, Health, Health Care, Homelessness, King-Drew Hospital, and Social Services; includes reports, clippings, flyers, and more.


• Drowning in Alcohol: Retail Outlet Density, Economic Decline, and Revitalization in South L.A.: a case study by Mary Lee (1998)


• L.A.'s Lethal Air: a report on the politics of L.A.Õs air pollution, by the Labor/Community Strategy Center (1991).


• Bus Riders Union: a documentary on the Bus Riders Union, a Los Angeles civil rights and environmental justice membership organization that works on the mass transit and public health needs of communities of color.


• Sweat Equity: a documentary film about creating community gardens from vacant city land.


• Environmental Posters: posters on the anti-nuclear and other environmental movements, available for loan for exhbits.


• Periodicals: including Caring Hands (on homelessness) (1987), Ecolution (1986), Green Action (1986), Health Advocate (1980), Health Care Action (1993), L.A. Eco Village and Co-op Networks (1993), Optimist (on AIDS) (1992),

• Critique: by Vincente Navarro (1986)

Highway Robbery: Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity, by Robert Doyle Bullard, Glenn Steve Johnson, Angel O. Torres (1994)

• Making a Killing: HMOs and the Threat to Your Health, by Jamie Court (1999)


• Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black WomenÕs Health Activism in America 1890-1950 by Susan Smith (1995)

See also material from our archives on health and safety.