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African Americans -- Civil Rights

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

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: 1927-2014; undated; 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; undated

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) San Francisco Chapter Papers

 Collection
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

"Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female" by Frances Beal, SNCC Black Women's Liberation Committee, undated

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains newsletters, pamphlets, clippings, articles, and other documents related to various topics such as: the Black movement, the Labor Movement, Libertarianism, Anti-War Movement, the Chinese revolution, student movements, and other topics. This series is arranged alphabetically by title. See individual records for more information about the material.

Dates: undated

Holt Labor Library Ephemera Collection

 Collection
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

 Collection
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

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

"Malcom's Legacy" [pamphlet], undated

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains newsletters, pamphlets, clippings, articles, and other documents related to various topics such as: the Black movement, the Labor Movement, Libertarianism, Anti-War Movement, the Chinese revolution, student movements, and other topics. This series is arranged alphabetically by title. See individual records for more information about the material.

Dates: undated