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Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2015-001
Abstract This collection contains archival materials and rare books related to Alfred and Bernice Ligon as the proprietors and founders of The Aquarian Book Shop and Aquarian Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, CA; their interests in African American history and culture; and studies and teaching of metaphysics, occultism and black gnostic studies. The archival collection concentrates on the operations and events of the Book Shop, curriculum of the Spiritual Center, and African American culture. The rare...
Dates: Late 1800s - 2014; Bulk 1941-1996

Glenn M. Anderson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-1983-001
Abstract This collection comprises papers related to the long political career of Glenn M. Anderson, who served in California as mayor of the city of Hawthorne, as State Assemblyman, and as Lieutenant Governor, then represented the state in the House of Representatives. The wide-ranging collection contains legislation, reports, correspondence, scrapbooks, newsletters, audio-visual material, and other items recording Anderson’s deep involvement in the political issues facing California and the United...
Dates: 1870s-2000; Majority of material found in 1940-1994

Melvin House Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-030
Abstract

This collection contains material belonging to Melvin House, an African American electrician and high school gymnast living in Los Angeles, California. Included in this collection are documents, photographs, ephemera, articles, booklets, pamphlets, and other material relating to House's education, career, friends and family; as well as his interests in spirituality, politics, religion, and the Nation of Islam.

Dates: 1929-1971; undated

Ernest C. Smith Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2019-019
Abstract This collection contains material belonging to Ernest C. Smith and his family. The majority of the collection contains documents regarding Ernest's life as a sheet metal contractor; teacher for the Los Angeles Unified School District; educator; politician; and African American civil rights activist. This collection includes: articles, reports, certificates, correspondence, event programs, photographs, ephemera, and other material. Also included in this collection are items that belonged to...
Dates: 1930-2011; undated

Watts Rebellion Collection

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Identifier: SPC-2019-010
Abstract

This collection contains material related to the Watts Rebellion, the Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles during 1965, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and also includes material regarding race, rioting, civil rights, activism, and poverty. A majority of this collection consists of newspaper and magazine articles; and also includes photographs, reports, and other material.

Dates: 1863, 1942-2015; undated

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Race relations 3
California -- Politics and government -- 1951- 2
Education, Higher -- California 2
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Spirituality 2
African American Jews 1
African American authors 1
African American book collectors 1
African American women poets 1
African Americans -- Civil Rights 1
African Americans -- Fiction 1
African Americans -- History 1
African Americans -- Intellectual life 1
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction 1
African Americans -- Poetry 1
African Americans -- Politics and government 1
African Americans -- Social conditions 1
Alcatraz Island (Calif.) 1
American drama -- African American authors 1
Antislavery movements 1
Astrology 1
Black Muslims 1
Black nationalism 1
Black people -- Egypt 1
Black people -- Religion 1
Black theology 1
Booksellers and bookselling 1
California -- History 1
California -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950 1
Chapbooks 1
Civil Rights Movement 1
Civil rights 1
Communism -- California 1
Discrimination in education -- California 1
Drama -- Black authors 1
Education 1
Education -- California 1
Educational equalization -- California 1
Educational law and legislation -- California 1
Egypt -- Civilization 1
Elections -- California 1
Electricians 1
Electricians -- Training of 1
Existentialism 1
Fishery law and legislation -- California 1
Gnosticism 1
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Harbors -- California -- Long Beach 1
Harbors -- California -- Los Angeles 1
Harbors -- Law and legislation -- California 1
Harlem Renaissance 1
Higher education and state -- California 1
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Government policy -- California 1
Interracial marriage 1
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 1
Jesus Christ -- New Age movement interpretations 1
Jesus Christ -- Words -- Extra-canonical parallels 1
Legislation -- California 1
Legislators -- California 1
Legislators -- United States -- Biography 1
Long Beach (Calif.) 1
Long Beach Harbor (Calif.) 1
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Magic 1
Marine resources -- Law and legislation -- California 1
Merchant marine -- United States 1
Metaphysics 1
New Age movement 1
Noise control -- Law and legislation -- California 1
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Racially mixed people 1
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Reparations for historical injustices -- United States 1
Riots 1
Roads -- United States -- Maintenance and repair 1
Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1992 1
San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Harbor 1
Segregation 1
Sheet-metal work 1
Spiritualism 1
Student movements -- California -- Berkeley -- 1960-1970 1
Tahoe, Lake (Calif. and Nev.) 1
Universities and colleges -- California 1
University of California, Berkeley -- Political activity 1
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Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Acquah, Joseph 1
Anderson, Glenn M. 1
Angelou, Maya 1
Aquarian Spiritual Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) 1
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Armour, Alaine 1
Bailey, Alice, 1880-1949 1
Ben-Jochannan, Yosef 1
Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996 1
California Community Colleges 1
California State University and Colleges 1
California State University, Dominguez Hills 1
California Teachers Association 1
California. Legislature. Assembly 1
California. Governor 1
California. Governor’s Commission on the Los Angeles Riots 1
California. Legislature. Senate. Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities in California 1
California. National Guard 1
Carter, Jimmy , 1924- 1
Cooper, J. California 1
Cranston, Alan , 1914-2000 1
Democratic Party (Calif.) 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
DuBois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 1
Gayle, Addison, Jr., 1932-1991 1
Giovanni, Nikki 1
Greenfield, Eloise 1
Gregory, Dick 1
Guy, Rosa 1
Haley, Alex 1
Hall, Manly P. (Manly Palmer), 1901-1990 1
Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 1
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 1
House, Melvin Douglass 1
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Hurston, Zora Neale 1
Jackson, John G. 1
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 1
Jordan, June, 1936-2002 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
Kgositsile, Keorapetse 1
Killens, John Oliver, 1916-1987 1
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 1
King, Richard D. 1
Lester, Julius 1
Ligon, Alfred, 1906-2002 1
Ligon, Bernice, 1912-2000 1
Lorde, Audre 1
Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department 1
Marshall, Paule, 1929-2019 1
McElroy, Lynetta A.S. 1
Meeds, Virgil A. 1
Military Prison at Alcatraz Island, California 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Los Angeles Branch 1
National Education Association 1
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1944 1
Perry, Armagene Hasani 1
Reagan, Ronald 1
Rogers, J.A. (Joel Augustus), 1880-1966 1
Sanyika, Dadisi 1
Shields, Raymond 1
Smith Vincent, Cheryl 1
Smith, Ernest C. 1
Soyinka, Wole 1
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing ), 1835-1914 1
Tenney, Jack B. (Jack Breckinridge ), 1898-1970 1
Thurman, Howard, 1915-1998 1
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, California 1
United States. Marine Mammal Commission 1
United States. Congress . House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation 1
United States. Congress. House 1
United States. Congress. House. Committee on merchant Marine and Fisheries 1
United Teachers Los Angeles 1
University of California (System) 1
Walker, Alice, 1944- 1
Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998 1
Weatherwax, John M. (John Martin), 1900-1984 1
Williams, Robert F. (Robert Franklin ), 1925-1996 1
Winston, Henry, 1911-1986 1
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 1
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1
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