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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

Black History Pamphlets Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-064
Abstract

This collection contains pamphlets, ephemera, booklets, joutrnals, comic books, and other materials related to Black history in the last 200 years. Subjects include slavery, economics, Black/White relations, as well as noted Black figures, including Rev. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Anglea Davis, Huey Newton, Paul Robeson, C.L.R. James, and Amanda Smith. Publications include Black journals, zines, and comic books introducing Black superheroes.

Dates: ca. 1890-2018

Civil Rights Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-009
Scope and Contents The Civil Rights Collection (1913-1994; undated) contains three boxes of flyers, leaflets, broadsides, magazines, and other documents related to civil rights activism. Included are flyers regarding activist Angelo Herndon; an event aimed at Los Angeles' Latinx voters; Delegates National Assembly for Peace, Washington D.C. April 1, 1952; a reprint of the address Rev. Edward D. McGowan of the National Committee to Defend Negro Leadership delivered before the National Fraternal Council of...
Dates: 1913-1994; undatee

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) San Francisco Chapter Papers

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Identifier: SPC-2023-004
Scope and Contents The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) San Francisco Chapter Papers (1964-1965, 1969; circa 1960s; undated) contains documents mostly related to activities of the San Francisco Chapter of CORE. A majority of the documents are in regards to an agreement between Community Dry Goods Relation Association and CORE, and CORE's belief that the terms of the agreement were not met due to discriminatory hiring practices; pickets, demonstrations, and marches protesting East Bay Restaurant Association,...
Dates: 1964-1969; circa 1960s; undated

Los Angeles Tribune (1941-1960)

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-029
Scope and Contents

This collection contains seven issues of the Los Angeles Tribune; a newspaper published in Los Angeles by civil rights activist, Almena Lomax. The newspaper ran from 1941-1960 and was published for African American residents of Los Angeles.

Dates: October 12, 1941; August 24, 1942; October 19, 1942; November 30, 1945; December 14, 1942; March 26, 1945

Malcolm X Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2020-009
Abstract

This collection contains eight black-and-white press photographs taken of Malcolm X at various events, as well as images taken of him at the [L.A.] courthouse, in front of his home after it was firebombed, and an image of him taken on a stretcher after he was assassinated.

Dates: March 20, 1962-February 21, 1965

Dadisi Sanyika Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2015-002
Abstract

This collection contains archival material and rare books related to Dadisi Sanyika and his interests in African American history and culture, African drumming and dance, and the study of astrology, metaphysics, occultism, black gnostic studies, and PermaCulture. Included in the collection are published books and periodicals, pamphlets, yearbooks, handwritten notes, study materials, lesson plans, astrology charts, ephemera, newspaper clippings, and VHS tapes.

Dates: 1940s-2005; 1970-2005

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Los Angeles Papers of Ron Wilkins

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2023-006
Abstract

This collection includes publications, organizational documents, correspondence, pamphlets, interviews, and other material related to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Los Angeles branch of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, formally known as H. Rap Brown. Also included is one folder that contains mailers, flyers, and a pamphlet regarding the East Bay Friends of SNCC; Bay Area Friends of SNCC; and National Office (SNCC).

Dates: May 1965-2005; undated; Majority of material found within 1967-1972

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X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 3
Aquarian Spiritual Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) 2
Bailey, Alice, 1880-1949 2
Hall, Manly P. (Manly Palmer), 1901-1990 2
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Budge, E. A. Wallis, Sir (Ernest Alfred Wallis), 1857-1934 1
Churchward, Albert 1
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Clymer, R. Swinburne (Reuben Swinburne), 1878-1966 1
Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training 1
Congress of Racial Equality 1
Cooper, J. California 1
Curtiss, Harriette Augusta, 1856?-1932 1
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne ), 1944- 1
DuBois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 1
Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986 1
Fortune, Dion 1
Gadalla, Moustafa, 1944 1
Gauquelin, Michel, 1928-1991 1
Gayle, Addison, Jr., 1932-1991 1
Ghose, Aurobindo, 1872-1950 1
Giovanni, Nikki 1
Greenfield, Eloise 1
Gregory, Dick 1
Guy, Rosa 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
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 1
Hurston, Zora Neale 1
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- 1
Jones, Marc Edmund, 1888-1980 1
Jordan, June, 1936-2002 1
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961 1
Kgositsile, Keorapetse 1
Killens, John Oliver, 1916-1987 1
King, Richard D. 1
Lester, Julius 1
Ligon, Alfred, 1906-2002 1
Ligon, Bernice, 1912-2000 1
Lomax, Almena 1
Lorde, Audre 1
Los Angeles Tribune (firm) 1
Lévi, Éliphas, 1810-1875 1
Marshall, Paule, 1929-2019 1
Massey, Gerald, 1828-1907 1
Meeds, Virgil A. 1
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Newton, Huey P. 1
Perry, Armagene Hasani 1
Purucker, G. de (Gottfried), 1874-1942 1
Regardie, Israel 1
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 1
Rogers, J.A. (Joel Augustus), 1880-1966 1
Rudhyar, Dane, 1895-1985 1
Sakoian , Frances 1
Sanyika, Dadisi 1
Saraydarian, Torkom 1
Schwaller de Lubicz, R.A. 1
Shields, Raymond 1
Southern Regional Council 1
Soyinka, Wole 1
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) 1
Thurman, Howard, 1915-1998 1
Walker, Alice, 1944- 1
Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998 1
Weatherwax, John M. (John Martin), 1900-1984 1
Winston, Henry, 1911-1986 1
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 1
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