"A Memorandum on Job Discrimination Against Negroes", October 3, 1942
Scope and Contents
The Workers Defense League Collection (1938-1954) contains 295 items consisting of newsletters; press and news releases; memoranda; mailers; and other documents generated by the Workers Defense League. Included in this collection are issues of News Bulletin; Last-Minute News; Workers Defense Bulletin; Press Service; and News Service as well as single sheet press releases, a copy of the tenth anniversary journal, memoranda, and documents related to the Odell Waller case, in which Waller, a Black sharecropper, was executed for fatally shooting his white landlord in self-defense. Other topics covered in the press and news releases include: Pepper-Geyer Anti-poll tax bill; railroad hearings; Austin-Wadsworth Bill; manpower bill; conscription; union rights; pay cuts; Tee Davis case; Indonesian deportees; the Private Levy case; Taft-Hartley Act; anti-lynching; conscientious objectors; peonage; immigration; and other subjects.
Dates
- October 3, 1942
Conditions Governing Access
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
Extent
From the Collection: 1 boxes
From the Collection: .94 Linear Feet (295 items)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Workers' Defense League (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the California State University Dominguez Hills, Gerth Archives and Special Collections Repository
University Library South -5039 (Fifth Floor)
1000 E. Victoria St.
Carson CA 90747
310-243-3895
archives@csudh.edu