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Filer Compton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2022-012
Abstract

This collection consists of approximately 25 magazines and newspaper titles, as well as newspaper clippings and ballots. The collection predominantly focuses on African American social and political news, civil rights issues, and cultural and entertainment news. A large portion of the collection consists of Jet magazines but almost equally as large is the collection of Ebony magazines. Some of the titles also included are The Crisis, Los Angeles Times, The Bulletin and more.

Dates: 1957-2020; Majority of material found within 1960-1990

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

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

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

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

Hahn (Harlan) Disabilities Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SPC-2014-004
Abstract This collection contains materials related to Harlan Hahn (1939-2008), his family, his battle with polio in the 1940s, and his professional career focusing mostly on society’s view of disabilities. Hahn was a professor of political science, psychiatry, and behavioral science at the University of Southern California. The collection concentrates on his writings and research on American and urban politics, and health and disability politics and policy. Included in the collection are published...
Dates: 1823-2006; 1945-2006

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American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born 1
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Armour, Alaine 1
Bailey, Alice, 1880-1949 1
Ben-Jochannan, Yosef 1
California Teachers Association 1
Cooper, J. California 1
Crane-Gartz, Kate 1
DuBois, W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 1
Ebony Magazine 1
Gallagher, Leo 1
Gayle, Addison, Jr., 1932-1991 1
Giovanni, Nikki 1
Greenfield, Eloise 1
Gregory, Dick 1
Guy, Rosa 1
Hahn, Harlan, 1939-2008 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
Jet Magazine 1
John Henry and Mary Louisa Dunn Foundation 1
Jordan, June, 1936-2002 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
Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born 1
Los Angeles Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case 1
Los Angeles Times (Firm) 1
Marshall, Paule, 1929-2019 1
Mayo Clinic 1
McElroy, Lynetta A.S. 1
Meeds, Virgil A. 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Los Angeles Branch 1
National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case 1
National Education Association 1
National Federation for Constitutional Liberties 1
Perry, Armagene Hasani 1
Rogers, J.A. (Joel Augustus), 1880-1966 1
Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953 1
Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953 1
Sanyika, Dadisi 1
Shields, Raymond 1
Smith Vincent, Cheryl 1
Smith, Ernest C. 1
Soyinka, Wole 1
The Crisis (magazine) 1
Thurman, Howard, 1915-1998 1
United States. Internal Security Act of 1950 1
United Teachers Los Angeles 1
University of Southern California 1
Walker, Alice, 1944- 1
Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998 1
Weatherwax, Clara , 1905-1958 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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