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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

John M. Weatherwax Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2015-005
Abstract This collection contains material collected and written by John M. Weatherwax such as correspondence, manuscripts, essays, film treatments, research notes, pamphlets, leaflets, flyers, programs, mailers, and other documents. Material authored by Weatherwax includes drafts of manuscripts, essays, novellas, articles, radio transcripts, and film treatments; as well as notes, revisions, and related research material. Collected material is from organizations such as American Committee for...
Dates: 1913-1981; undated; Majority of material found within 1930-1960

Janice Yen Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-043
Abstract

This collection includes flyers, newspaper clippings, organizational documents, press releases, issues of "Banner," digitized photographs, and other material related to the Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress (NCRR), formally known as the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations. It also includes material related to the Little Tokyo People's Rights Organization (LTPRO), Japanese Americans, and Japanese American redress. This collection contains some digitized material.

Dates: 1981-2019

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Civil rights 16
African Americans -- Civil Rights 8
Los Angeles (Calif.) 7
Japanese Americans -- Civil rights 5
Japanese Americans -- Reparations 5
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Race discrimination 5
Civil Rights Movement 4
African Americans -- Poetry 3
Race relations 3
Reparations for historical injustices 3
Social justice 3
United States -- Politics and government 3
Activism 2
African American periodicals 2
African Americans -- History 2
African Americans -- Politics and government 2
African Americans -- Social conditions 2
Astrology 2
Black people -- Egypt 2
Black people -- Religion 2
Black theology 2
Communism 2
Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century 2
Egypt -- Civilization 2
Existentialism 2
Gnosticism 2
Japanese American newspapers 2
Jesus Christ -- New Age movement interpretations 2
Jesus Christ -- Words -- Extra-canonical parallels 2
Labor movement 2
Little Tokyo (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2
Magic 2
Metaphysics 2
New Age movement 2
Occultism 2
Pan-Africanism 2
Periodicals 2
Photographs 2
Race 2
Racism 2
Reparations for historical injustices -- United States 2
San Francisco (Calif.) 2
Spiritualism 2
Spirituality 2
AIDS (Disease) 1
AIDS periodicals 1
Aberdeen (Wash.) 1
Adoption 1
African American Jews 1
African American authors 1
African American book collectors 1
African American dance 1
African American newspapers 1
African American women poets 1
African Americans -- California 1
African Americans -- California -- Los Angeles 1
African Americans -- Comic books, strips, etc 1
African Americans -- Culture 1
African Americans -- Economic conditions 1
African Americans -- Fiction 1
African Americans -- Intellectual life 1
African Americans -- Juvenile fiction 1
Altadena (Calif.) 1
Alternative medicine 1
American drama -- African American authors 1
Anti-LGBTQ+ violence 1
Anti-racism 1
Antislavery movements 1
Bears (Gay culture) 1
Black Muslims 1
Black nationalism 1
Booksellers and bookselling 1
Busing for school integration 1
California -- Politics and government -- 1951- 1
Chapbooks 1
Civil disobedience 1
Color -- Therapeutic use 1
Community development -- California -- Los Angeles 1
Community development, Urban 1
Community organization 1
Compton (Calif.) 1
Concentration Camps -- United States 1
Cosmogony 1
Dance -- Africa 1
Desegregation 1
Disability studies -- United States 1
Drag 1
Drama -- Black authors 1
Drum -- Performance -- Africa 1
Economic assistance, Domestic 1
Education 1
Education -- African Americans 1
Education, Higher -- California 1
Education, Secondary 1
Emigration and immigration 1
Emigration and immigration law 1
Equality 1
Espionage 1
Espionage, Communist 1
Espionage, Soviet 1
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Language
English 23
Multiple languages 1
 
Names
Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress 4
X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 3
American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born 2
Aquarian Spiritual Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2
Bailey, Alice, 1880-1949 2
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Hall, Manly P. (Manly Palmer), 1901-1990 2
Jackson, John G. 2
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 2
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 2
Watts Labor Community Action Committee (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2
Weatherwax, John M. (John Martin), 1900-1984 2
4-Front Magazine 1
AIDS Health Project 1
AIDS Project Los Angeles 1
AIDS WALK Los Angeles 1
Acquah, Joseph 1
Adelante 1
Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons (Organization) 1
After Dark 1
Aid for AIDS 1
American Civil Liberties Union 1
Angelou, Maya 1
Armour, Alaine 1
Bay Area Reporter 1
Being Alive (Organization) 1
Ben-Jochannan, Yosef 1
Besant, Annie, 1847-1933 1
Black Panther Party 1
Budge, E. A. Wallis, Sir (Ernest Alfred Wallis), 1857-1934 1
Buttigieg, Pete, 1982- 1
Caffe Cino 1
California State University, Dominguez Hills 1
California Teachers Association 1
California eagle 1
Capital District Gay and Lesbian Community Council (Albany, N.Y.) 1
Christopher Street (Magazine) 1
Churchward, Albert 1
Civil Rights Congress (U.S.) 1
Clark, Steve 1
Clymer, R. Swinburne (Reuben Swinburne), 1878-1966 1
Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training 1
Community Care and Development Services 1
Congress of Racial Equality 1
Cooper, J. California 1
Cortines, Ramon C. 1
Crane-Gartz, Kate 1
Curtiss, Harriette Augusta, 1856?-1932 1
Cybersocket 1
DNA (Magazine) 1
Dallas County Voters League 1
Dallas Voice 1
Daughters of Bilitis 1
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne ), 1944- 1
Dignity/Los Angeles 1
Dignity/USA 1
DuBois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 1
Ebony Magazine 1
Echo (Magazine) 1
Edge (Magazine) 1
Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986 1
Fag Rag (Newspaper) 1
Fortune, Dion 1
Frontiers Magazine 1
Gadalla, Moustafa, 1944 1
Gallagher, Leo 1
Gauquelin, Michel, 1928-1991 1
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation 1
Gay (Newspaper) 1
Gay Community News 1
Gay Games 1
Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc. 1
Gay Sunshine (Newspaper) 1
Gay and Lesbian Times 1
Gayle, Addison, Jr., 1932-1991 1
Genre (Magazine) 1
Ghose, Aurobindo, 1872-1950 1
Giovanni, Nikki 1
Golden State Gay Rodeo Association. Greater Los Angeles Chapter 1
Greater Los Angeles Community Action Agency 1
Greenfield, Eloise 1
Gregory, Dick 1
Guy, Rosa 1
Hahn, Harlan, 1939-2008 1
Haley, Alex 1
Hartmann, Franz, 1838-1912 1
Heline, Corinne, 1882- 1
Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 1
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984 1
Hodson, Geoffrey, 1886-1983 1
Housing Authority of the City and County of San Francisco 1
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Human Rights Campaign (U.S.) 1
Hurston, Zora Neale 1
In Magazine 1
Instinct (Magazine) 1
International Male (Company) 1
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
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