Watts Labor Community Action Committee (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Carolee Gardner Trefts Pasadena School Board Collection
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-013
Abstract
This collection is comprised of various research items compiled by Carolee Gardner Trefts, including her own writings. It mainly documents the history of the Pasadena, California School Board's controversy regarding desegregation and busing effecting the minority students and the internal turmoil within the school board itself between members and school parents. The research also includes a manuscript by Harry Tyler from the 1950s and 1960s, which provides background information for some of...
Dates:
1963-1979, 1981, 1983, 1999, 2004; Majority of material found within 1970-1979
Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) Papers
Collection
Identifier: SPC-2018-001
Abstract
This collection is comprised of materials generated by Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC). The Watts Labor Community Action Committee formed in 1965 prior to the Los Angeles (Watts) Riots of 1965 in an effort spearheaded by Ted Watkins, Sr. and supported by local labor unions, most notably, the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW). Their purpose was to create and provide programs and services that serve the needs of the under-served,...
Dates:
1947, 1964-1983, 1985-1988, 1990-1999, 2001-2003, 2005, 2007-2009, 2011, 2014-2015; Majority of material found within 1965-1999