"California Legislature at Sacramento. Biographies and Photographs of Senate and Assembly Members and Officers. List of Senate and Assembly Members, Officers, Attaches, Committees, and Rules of the Two Houses", 1967, 1969, 1971, 1975

This sub-series contains material from Ernest Smith’s time as a member of the Los Angeles Branch’s Executive Committee with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) where he also had a Life Membership, and his various positions and interests in politics and activism. Material includes: NAACP mission statement; reports; meeting minutes; Roy Wilkins Freedom Fund Awards dinner programs and invitations; convention programs; material related to the National Reparations Congress including meeting minutes; documents related to H.R. 40, Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African American Act; and documents regarding the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. This sub-series also contains material from Smith’s time volunteering for former President Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign; material from Smith senate campaigns; documents from his time as a coordinator for Yvonne W. Brathwaite’s California State Assembly campaign; Zephyr Democratic Club documents; certificates; and other material.