In 1966, William H. DuBay was suspended from the Los Angeles Archdiocese for opining his criticism of the Roman Catholic church. The collection includes materials related to DuBay's controversial tenure as a Roman Catholic priest and his suspension.
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The El Nido Services and Lodges records cover the practical details of El Nido's operations, 1930-1980, documenting its real estate management, zoning battles, tax questions, insurance and "disaster preparedness" provisions, and occasional personnel problems of this social service agency. Originally a project of the Los Angeles Section of the National Council of Jewish Women, the Section established a Children's Bureau in Los Angeles in 1925, and three years later built a camp for...
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Records of the Friends 4 Expo Transit advocacy group created and collected by Kathy Seal, a longtime community organizer who founded Friends 4 Expo in 2000 to fight for a light rail Expo Line along a right of way in Los Angeles running from Exposition Boulevard into Santa Monica. Friends 4 Expo (also known as Friends4Expo and F4E) emphasized the environmental benefit of clean, speedy, high-capacity light rail, and sought to overcome opposition to a passenger line--principally from...
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The Wynne Gibson collection on the Minute Women of Los Angeles consists of material collected by stage and screen actress Wynne Gibson (1898-1987) on the World War II volunteer organization, the Minute Women of Los Angeles. According to a press release included in the collection, "The Minute Women - Los Angeles is an organization formed for the purpose of providing trained women to serve our communities, without pay, in times of emergency and to do everything possible to help the successful...
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The Herbert G. Klein papers contain detailed records of the day to day activities of Herbert G. Klein, University of Southern California alumnus and trustee, journalist, editor and first White House Director of Communications. Included are records from all phases of Klein's long career: his early career as a journalist with Copley Newspapers in Alhambra and San Diego; his work with Richard Nixon, beginning with the Vice Presidential campaign of 1956; and his subsequent career as a media...
Collection contains minutes of board meetings, copies of the school's room reservations with USC, newspaper clippings about the school, ephemera, and chronological files of documents from the years 1990-1995. The chronological files include correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the school's business matters, meeting minutes, financial records, and press releases.
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department's Records on the Investigation of the Homicide of Ruben Salazar contain documents maintained by the Sheriff's Department for more than forty years pertaining to preparations for, and responses to, the National Chicano Moratorium march and rally, among the largest anti-Vietnam War protests in Los Angeles, held on August, 29, 1970, in East Los Angeles. Also documented is the tragic aftermath--the ensuing riot, significant damages, complaints about...
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1970 - 1974; 1998; 2011 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1971
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On April 29, 1992, the city of Los Angeles erupted into riots after four LAPD officers accused of beating motorist Rodney King were acquitted of all criminal charges. The effects were catastrophic; in total, the chaos persisted for six days and resulted in 58 deaths, 2,383 injuries, and nearly a billion dollars in property damage. The extent of the human and material losses incurred from the riots, coupled with intense public scrutiny of the LAPD, led the Los Angeles Board of Police...
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1931 - 1992; Majority of material found within
This collection contains the papers of American actress Virginia Mayo (1920-2005). Materials include personal and business correspondence, telegrams, fan letters, theater and motion picture programs, scrapbooks, and clippings, stills, photographs, fan magazines, publicity, pressbooks, and awards and trophies.
Papers of Gordon Leo McDonough, member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the United States Congress. The collection includes McDonough's personal and legislative correspondence, printed bills and bill summaries relating to McDonough's work in Congress, office files, copies of press releases and public statements, records relating to various United States military academies, and files organized by subject.