Social justice -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Floyd C. Covington papers
Collection
Identifier: 7057
Abstract
Floyd C. Covington was a Black civic leader in Los Angeles from the late 1920s to the 1970s. Through his work as the first Executive Director of the Los Angeles Urban League and his service in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Covington redefined social welfare and equal opportunity in both employment and housing for various communities in Los Angeles. Covington's papers contain his early scholarship and poetry from his youth and education in Seattle, Washington and Topeka,...
Dates:
1901 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1970
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Death to the Klan flyer
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31275056490965]
Identifier: 6264
Abstract
Flyer announcing a "Slideshow/Discussion about the KKK and the Black Nation's fight for liberation", November 9, [1981], at the New Valley Ministry in San Francisco, and a statewide anti-Klan conference and demonstration on November 14th and 15th . The events were sponsored by the Inter-Club Council, and presented by the Committee to Free the Pontiac Brothers and Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. After the acquittal of the defendants in the Greensboro Massacre case, efforts to raise...
Dates:
1981
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
William H. DuBay papers
Collection
Identifier: 0391
Abstract
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.
Dates:
1955 - 1974
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections