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Alfred and Bernice Ligon Aquarian Collection

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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

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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

Nelson Blackstock papers

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Identifier: HLL-2019-016
Abstract This collection comprises the papers of Nelson Blackstock, a former Civil Rights activist who as involved with the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and various other student-led political organizations in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. He was also a journalist and editor who was at one time a managing editor of The Militant. The collection includes newspaper...
Dates: 1963-2006, undated

Civil Rights Collection

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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

Holt Labor Library Ephemera Collection

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Identifier: HLL-2019-034
Abstract

The collection comprises buttons, keychains, flags, banners, and black-and-white and color photographs, negatives and contact sheets related to various labor strikes, commemorative events, political party and labor union election campaigns, women's rights causes, anti-war activism and demonstrations, and socialist political causes.

Dates: 1948-2005, undated; Majority of material found within 1970-2000, undated

Holt Labor Library pamphlet and subject file collection

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Identifier: HLL-2019-001
Abstract

This collection contains pamphlets, manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera related to labor movements and issues, Anarchism, Communism, Marxism, Socialism, Trotskyism, civil rights, anti-war and peace movements, the Soviet Union and the Russian Revolution, and related subjects in the arts, sciences, religion, sports, economics, education, and government.

Dates: 1902-2016; Majority of material found within 1930-1970

Berta Green Langston papers

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Identifier: HLL-2019-002
Abstract

This collection includes the personal and professional papers of Berta Green Langston, an active member of the Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Action who was involved in various protest movements during the 20th century. It includes newsletters, newspaper articles, miscellaneous writings, and correspondence with James Baldwin, Robert F. Williams, Albert Perry, Dave Dellinger, William Worthy, Pete Seeger, and Noam Chomsky, among others.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1958-2005

Los Angeles Tribune (1941-1960)

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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

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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

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Besant, Annie, 1847-1933 1
Black Panther Party 1
Blackstock, Nelson, 1944- 1
Budge, E. A. Wallis, Sir (Ernest Alfred Wallis), 1857-1934 1
Churchward, Albert 1
Civil Rights Congress (U.S.) 1
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
Langston, Berta Green, 1926-2010 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
Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.) 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
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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
Williams, Robert F. (Robert Franklin), 1925-1996 1
Winston, Henry, 1911-1986 1
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