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Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department records, 1991

Title: Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department records 1991

The city of Los Angeles became the epicenter of a public relations scandal on March 3, 1991, when an amateur cameraman captured on video four uniformed LAPD officers beating motorist Rodney G. King. In addition to generating public outrage, the incident cast a dark shadow over the LAPD and called into question the integrity of the nation's third largest municipal police force. Subsequently, the ten member Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department was formed to conduct a full and fair evaluation of all aspects of the LAPD's structure and operations related to the use of force when making arrests. Included in this collection are the documents that were collected and analyzed by the Commission over the course of its study.

ArchivalResource: 48.08 Linear feet; 49 boxes

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Teague, Charles Collins, 1873-. St. Francis Dam Disaster Papers, 1928-1929.

Title: St. Francis Dam Disaster Papers, 1928-1929.

The collection contains 12 folders in 2 boxes. The largest folder has 223 pages while the smallest has only 21. The inclusive dates are 1928-1929. This collection includes correspondence, meetings minutes, press releases, photographs, and other documents about the St. Francis dam disaster. As the original arrangement of the papers has been kept, most folders contain documents related either to one of the government-established committees or to some non-governmental organizations. The papers document, in detail, how various governmental committees and non-governmental organizations worked together for the disaster's relief and compensation. It also deals with the conflicts between the Los Angeles city government and the Red Cross on some relief issues, the legal aspects of Los Angeles city government's relief efforts, and the investigation of the causes of the dam's failure. Among others, Charles C. Teague, mayor of the City of Santa Paula, participated in the decision making process of the disaster's relief and investigation and he is an author in the collection. Subjects and participants in the collection include: American Legion, American Society of Civil Engineers, Lansing H. Beach, California State Board of Health, California Dept. of Finance, California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, California attorneys, H. T. Cory, Bertram Hanford Crocheron, District attorneys, David Christian Henny, Louis C. Hill, Los Angeles City Council, Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power, Los Angeles Mayor, Los Angeles Police Dept., Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles City Attorney, Los Angeles times, C. E. Grunsky, George D. Louderback, Elwood Mead, Mexicans in California, Newhall Land and Farming Company, Red Cross and Red Crescent, Southern California Edison Company, Union Oil Company of California, United States Dept. of Agriculture, University of California College of Agriculture, Bailey Willis, Harry O. Wood, and Clement Calhoun Young.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263685745 View

Mortensen, E. B. Daily report of detective officer, Los Angeles Police Dept., 1924, 1926, 1928-29 / E.B. Mortensen.

Title: Daily report of detective officer, Los Angeles Police Dept., 1924, 1926, 1928-29 / E.B. Mortensen.

Holograph report of cases assigned and daily activities submitted by a police officer.

ArchivalResource: 4 v. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12820547 View

Gregory Freeman Stone collection on the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, Bulk, 1968-1991, 1944-1991

Title: Gregory Freeman Stone collection on the Robert F. Kennedy assassination Bulk, 1968-1991 1944-1991

The collection includes files accumulated by Gregory Freemen Stone during his investigation into the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

ArchivalResource: 92.0 Linear feet; 99 boxes

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McKeag, C. E. Los Angeles Mayor's Office letterpress books, 1905-1908.

Title: Los Angeles Mayor's Office letterpress books, 1905-1908.

These official letters cover portions of the terms of mayors Owen McAleer and Arthur C. Harper. Most of the letters pertain to the police and fire departments. Volume 1 is from 19 January 1905 to 28 April 1906 and volume 2 is from 4 May 1906 to 29 January 1908.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. with indeces (in an oversize box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24037696 View

Loren Miller papers, 1876-2003, 1932-1966

Title: Loren Miller papers 1876-2003 1932-1966

This collection consists of the personal and professional papers ofjournalist, civil rights activist, attorney and judge Loren Miller (1903-1967).

ArchivalResource: 10,454 items.; 72 boxes.

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Steinberg, Warren L. (Warren Linnington), 1924-2004. Warren L. Steinberg papers, 1944-1998 (bulk 1966-1997).

Title: Warren L. Steinberg papers, 1944-1998 (bulk 1966-1997).

The papers of Warren L. Steinberg date from 1944 to 1998 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1966 to 1997. The papers focus on Steinberg's involvement with the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, an organization that Steinberg was involved with until his death in 2004.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (8 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703621155 View

Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor. Research material on the police beating of Rodney King, 1993-2005, bulk, 1993-1994.

Title: Research material on the police beating of Rodney King, 1993-2005, bulk, 1993-1994.

Collection consists of materials related to Dr. Gibbs' study, The impact of the police beating of Rodney King on the attitudes and behaviors of African American youth in South Central Los Angeles, which she conducted from September 1993 to September 1994. The study included two groups of participants--a group of sixty-seven racially and ethnically diverse civic, political and professional community leaders and focus groups of African American youth ranging in age from 15 through 25. The adult leaders were not chosen at random, but through a snowball sample based on their reputations in the community. The youth groups were recruited via community and youth-serving non-profit, schools, and churches in South Central Los Angeles. The bulk of the material consists of the sixty-seven interviews and seventeen focus groups conducted by Dr. Gibbs and her research assistant. These interviews span ninety-one audiocassettes; forty-four of the eighty-four of these interviews/focus groups are transcribed. The interviews with community leaders comprise the majority of transcribed interviews; due to high levels of noise and overlapping voices, only a few of the focus group interviews were transcribed. Permissions were obtained for only forty of the interviews; the remaining audio interviews and transcripts are restricted. The transcripts contain the original notes, highlights and coding annotations of Dr. Gibbs and her research assistants. Four audiocassettes contain interviews conducted in 1996 and 1997; there are no transcripts of these interviews. One audiocassette contains a recording of a Community Police Forum held in South Central Los Angeles in 1994. The remainder of the materials includes Dr. Gibbs' research protocol, biography, curriculum vitae, supplementary research materials and selected publications relating to her 1993-1994 study.

ArchivalResource: 3 document boxes (1.5 linear ft.)4 oversize boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/732361040 View

Miller, Loren. Papers of Loren Miller, 1876-2003 (bulk dates 1932-1966)

Title: Papers of Loren Miller, 1876-2003 (bulk dates 1932-1966)

The collection contains 10,454 semi-cataloged items and housed in 72 boxes and 3 oversize folders. The collection documents Loren Miller's four decades of fighting for equality and civil rights and his legal work against racial real estate covenants and discrimination in housing. It contains material related to his work with several organizations including the NAACP, National Urban League and the ACLU. The collection also contains material related to Loren Miller's personal life and family as well as his journalism career and ownership of the California eagle. The collection also contains many items related to Langston Hughes including letters written between Miller and Hughes and copies of some of Hughes' writings. The collection contains the following types of material: correspondence, telegrams, postcards, manuscripts, speeches, newspaper and magazine clippings, publications including full magazines, briefs and other legal documents, brochures, meeting minutes, reports and photographs as well as research notes for and drafts of Miller's book The petitioners: The story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro. Participants in the collection include: Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, Fletcher Bowron, Tom Bradley, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Nathaniel Colley, Lester B. Granger, Augustus Hawkins, Langston Hughes, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Thurgood Marshall, Henry Lee Moon, Stanley Mosk, Walter White, Roy Wilkins and Franklin Williams, American Civil Liberties Union, American Federation of Labor, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Congress of Racial Equality, Japanese American Citizens' League, League for Struggle for Negro Rights, Los Angeles Urban League, NAACP and its legal defense fund, National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, National Negro Congress, National Urban League and the California Eagle. The collection highlights events in Birmingham and Montgomery, Alabama; Harlem, New Yok; Little Rock, Arkansas; Los Angeles, California; Washington, D.C. and the Soviet Union. Subjects include: James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Medgar Evers, Angelo Herndon, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas J. Mooney, Joel Elias Spingarn, Malcolm X, and Whitney M. Young. The California Supreme Court and Municipal Court (Los Angeles Judicial District), Los Angeles Police Department, Meschrabpom Film Company, National Bar Association, and the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, 14th Amendment to the Constitution, Fair Employment Practices Committee, Federal Housing Administration, National Housing Agency, President's Committee on Civil Rights, Commission on Civil Rights and the US Supreme Court. And African American authors; civil rights workers, judges, lawyers and newspapers; civil liberties and civil rights; crime and race; Communism; discrimination in general but more specifically criminal justice administration, employment and housing; hate crimes; inner cities; other minorities including Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans and Jews; journalists; labor law; lynching; mass media and minorities; police brutality with emphasis on Los Angeles; racial profiling; racism; real covenants; segregation; slavery and American history; socialists; United States government and politics and California government and politics; the Scottsboro trial; and the Watts Riot and Zoot Suit Riots of Los Angeles.

ArchivalResource: 10,454 items.72 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232610923 View

Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Dept. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1943.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1943.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from Clemence B. Horrall, Chief of Police, Los Angeles, Calif.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155891846 View

Los Angeles Police Department Records of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Investigation, ca. 1968-1978

Title: Los Angeles Police Department Records of the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Investigation, ca. 1968-1978

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Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Commission. Los Angeles Webster Commission records, 1931-1992 (bulk 1991-1992).

Title: Los Angeles Webster Commission records, 1931-1992 (bulk 1991-1992).

Chaired by former federal judge and FBI and CIA Director William H. Webster, the Webster Commission assessed law enforcement's performance in connection with the April, 1992 Los Angeles riots. The collection consists of materials collected and studied by the Commission over the course of its investigation. Materials pertain to both the Los Angeles incident specifically, and civil disturbance, riot control, and policing tactics in general.Included in the collection are the following: interviews with LAPD officers, law enforcement personnel, government officials, community leaders, and activists; articles, broadcasts, and press releases covering the riots; various tactical and contingency plans created for disasters and emergencies; reports, studies, and manuals about riot control and prevention; literature about community-based policing strategies; emergency plans and procedures developed by other cities; and after-action reports issued once the riots had subsided. Also featured are items related to the internal operations of the LAPD both before and during the riots, including activity reports, meeting agendas and minutes, arrest data, annual reports, curricula and educational materials, and personnel rosters.

ArchivalResource: 50 linear ft. (40 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/710855594 View

Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department records, 1991.

Title: Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department records, 1991.

Chaired by prominent attorney and former Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher, the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department assessed the structure and operations of the LAPD in connection with the Rodney King incident of March, 1991. The collection consists of materials collected and analyzed by the Commission and its professional staff over the course of their 100 day study. Materials reflect the major themes of the Commission's investigation including use-of-force guidelines, bias and discrimination, personnel and hiring practices, internal discipline, complaints, and citizen oversight. Included in the collection are the following: excerpts from books, journals, dissertations, and reports related to the role of the police in society; newspaper and article clippings; excerpts from and analyses of the Los Angeles City Charter; court transcripts, memoranda, and legal briefs; correspondence with witnesses, LAPD personnel, and members of the general public; interview transcripts and copies of witness testimony; statistics related to the use of force maintained in LAPD databases; summaries of and excerpts from selected LAPD personnel files; settlement agreements between the city of Los Angeles and aggrieved citizens; street maps delineating the LAPD's service areas; and draft copies of several chapters from the Commission report. Also featured are materials related to the Commission staff's work product, including work plans, meeting agendas, notes, and correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 48.08 linear ft. (49 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712599407 View

Los Angeles Webster Commission records, Bulk, 1991-1992, 1931-1992

Title: Los Angeles Webster Commission records Bulk, 1991-1992 1931-1992

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 Commissioners to establish the Webster Commission to assess law enforcement's performance in connection with the riots. Included in this collection are interviews, article clippings, broadcasts, reports, emergency operations plans, and internal LAPD documents that were collected and analyzed by the Commission over the course of its study.

ArchivalResource: 50.0 Linear feet; 40 boxes

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Warren L. Steinberg papers, Bulk, 1966-1997, 1944-1998

Title: Warren L. Steinberg papers Bulk, 1966-1997 1944-1998

The papers of Warren L. Steinberg date from 1944 to 1998 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1966 to 1997. The papers focus on Steinberg's involvement with the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, an organization that Steinberg was involved with until his death in 2004.

ArchivalResource: 8.0 Linear feet; 8 boxes

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt438nf4dh View

Stone, Gregory, 1949-. Gregory Freeman Stone collection on the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, 1944-1991 (bulk 1968-1991).

Title: Gregory Freeman Stone collection on the Robert F. Kennedy assassination, 1944-1991 (bulk 1968-1991).

The collection includes the materials that were accumulated and studied by Gregory Freeman Stone over the course of his investigation into Senator Robert F. Kennedy's assassination. Included are excerpts from the FBI and LAPD's investigative files regarding the Kennedy case, full transcripts of the Sirhan trial and subsequent appeal, VHS recordings of evidence and media coverage of the case, correspondence exchanged between Stone and other second-gunman theorists, transcripts of interviews conducted with witnesses in the case, photographs and diagrams of the crime scene, Stone's personal notes and conclusions, and indexes and lists providing direction for further research. The collection also includes a comprehensive survey of media coverage of the Kennedy case, including newspaper and periodical clippings, journal articles, excerpts from books, and news and video broadcasts.

ArchivalResource: 92 linear ft. (99 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773929908 View