Scope and Content These files pertain to Siegel's role as Executive Director of the Los Angeles Citizens Housing Council, a post she held from 1947 to 1948. Included are article clippings, handwritten notes, correspondence, reports, memoranda, journal excerpts, several editions of the Council newsletter, other publications created and distributed by the Council, various pieces of housing-related legislation drafted at the state and federal levels, and the Council's 1947 Report on the Conference on Housing....

Scope and Content In her capacity as Executive Director of the Los Angeles Citizens Housing Council, Siegel delivered a number of speeches about race restricted covenants, informal gentlemen's agreements, and other discriminatory tactics that existed within California's housing market in the mid-twentieth century. The file consists of materials related to Siegel's speaking engagements between 1947 and 1950. Included is correspondence; pamphlets, brochures, and article clippings announcing...

Scope and Content As a member of the American Jewish Congress's Commission on Law and Social Welfare, Siegel advocated against restrictive covenants, which were often written into housing deeds to exclude members of the Jewish faith from purchasing real estate. Materials in this folder pertain to Siegel's tenure as a member of the Commission. Included are memoranda, correspondence, and Commission newsletters, as well as transcripts from several Los Angeles-area court cases that challenged the...

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Included in this folder are materials pertaining to the Los Angeles Housing Educational Fund, an arm of the Los Angeles Citizens Housing Council with which Siegel was involved. The folder contains minutes from the Educational Fund's Board of Directors' meetings, handwritten notes taken at these meetings, an informational pamphlet, press releases, correspondence, and a legal memorandum.

Scope and Content In 1948, Siegel was selected to serve on the Southern California Advisory Committee for the California Housing Initiative. The committee circulated petitions and advocated in favor of the California Housing Initiative (Proposition 14) that was taken before voters in the November, 1948 statewide election. Proposition 14, which sought to implement a statewide public housing program for low-income individuals and families, ultimately failed at the ballot box but nonetheless laid the groundwork...

Scope and Content Materials in this folder pertain to Siegel's role as the Southern California Secretary of the California Housing Association, a post that she held in 1949. Included are pamphlets published by the Association, correspondence, minutes from the Association's board meetings, and several issues of Association newsletters. Items in the series primarily relate to how California was affected by the implementation of the Housing Act of 1949, a landmark piece of federal legislation that sought to...

Scope and Content In 1949, Siegel worked in conjunction with the Council for Equality in Employment to draft a Fair Employment Practices Ordinance, which aimed to prohibit discrimination in the workplace because of race, color, creed, national origin, or ancestry. The folder contains materials related to Siegel's work in this capacity. Included is correspondence related to the creation of the ordinance, draft copies of the ordinance, and a chart listing cities that had adopted similar...

Scope and Content The folder includes materials published by the Congressional Committee for Christian Democracy regarding the United States Supreme Court's 1948 ruling in Shelley v. Kraemer, which outlawed court enforcement of race restricted covenants that were often used to exclude minorities from certain urban and suburban neighborhoods. Included are press releases, a resolution, correspondence, and fact sheets, all of which discuss the Committee's stance on restrictive...

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The folder includes materials related to county-wide housing issues, as addressed by the Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations. Included are agendas and meeting minutes from Commission meetings, memoranda distributed among Commission members, and correspondence. Materials pertain to the racial and ethnic composition of public housing developments within the county, as well as plans for the clearance and redevelopment of blighted neighborhoods.

Scope and Content Although the Housing Act of 1949 allocated millions of dollars of federal funds for the identification, demolition, and redevelopment of distressed and blighted areas, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors failed to apply for funds that had been earmarked for county-wide redevelopment projects. This drew the ire of Siegel and her colleagues at the California Housing Association, who argued that the Supervisors' lack of action suggested a lack of commitment to ensuring that fair and...