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Nadel, Leonard 1916-1990. Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles, 1947-1998 (bulk 1947-1957)

Title: Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles, 1947-1998 (bulk 1947-1957)

The collection consists of negatives, contact prints, notes, unpublished books, and related documents produced by Leonard Nadel from 1948-1953, just prior to and during the period when he worked as a documentary photographer for the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA). Series I consists primarily of negatives, contact prints, and notes that Nadel produced while working for HACLA, and on related urban development, public housing, and slum documentation projects. In addition to documentation of Los Angeles public housing projects such as Avalon Gardens, Ramona Gardens, and Basilone Homes, there are photographic surveys, sometimes block by block, of the city's slums and historic areas targeted for demolition and revitalization, including the Civic Center area, Bunker Hill, Elysian Park, and Chávez Ravine. Several of these projects were championed by or carried out under the auspices of the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA). There are photographs of the planning meetings of city officials and architects (including Richard Neutra, Robert Alexander, and Lloyd Wright), urban redevelopment commission tours, hearings, and conferences. Also included are a few photographs of slums in New York, as well as a small amount of material related to Frank Wilkinson, the assistant director of HACLA, who was fired from the organization in 1953 after refusing to disclose his political affiliations to the California Anti-Subversive Committee, a copy of the The 8th, 9th, and 10th consolidated annual report of the Housing Authority of Los Angeles illustrated with photographs by Nadel and other HACLA photographers, and a copy of And ten thousand more, the 1949 University of Southern California Student Film produced for HACLA. Series II contains Nadel's photographic materials and notes on Pueblo del Rio and Aliso Village, his largest photographic projects of the late 1940s. He documented Pueblo del Rio in 1947 and 1948, and then went on to photograph Aliso Village in 1948 and 1949. Also included are the two large leather-bound volumes he compiled based on this material. Through photographs and text, these books tell in detail the stories of the two housing projects, focusing not just on the architecture and layout of the complexes, but also recording the family lives and project-supported social networks of the tenants. In 1949 he made a trip to Washington, D.C. and New York City to meet with supporters and potential publishers for his book Aliso Village, U.S.A. The related correspondence and Nadel's meeting notes are included in this series. Although there was interest in these photographic projects, the books were never published.

ArchivalResource: 8.75 linear ft. (14 boxes)1 videocassette of 1 (VHS) : 1/2 in. ; original.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84944340 View

Stewart, William Albert. North Carolina Speaker Ban collection, 1965-1988.

Title: North Carolina Speaker Ban collection, 1965-1988.

The North Carolina Speaker Ban Collection dates from 1965 to1988 and contains depositions, exhibits, correspondence, testimonies and other documents from judicial hearings as well as six sound cassettes of interviews conducted by William Stewart (Ed. D. 1988) with William C. Friday, J. Carlyle Sitterson, Robert Morgan, James Medford, and Dr. A.K. King, Jan.-Nov. 1987.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/303427032 View

Carl and Anne Braden Papers, 1928-2006

Title: Carl and Anne Braden Papers, 1928-2006

Papers, 1928-2006, of Louisville, Kentucky, civil rights activists Carl and Anne Braden, primarily documenting their work with the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), 1954-1974, and the Social Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC), 1974-2006. Additional records of SCEF and its predecessor, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (1938-1948) are also included and were once in the possession of James Dombrowski, who headed both organizations before the Bradens. Dombrowski's early records include executive board minutes; subject files; and correspondence (some available only on microfilm) with leaders such as James Aronson, Leonard Boudin, Virginia and Clifford Durr, James Forman, and William Howard Melish; Harvey and Jessie O'Connor, Fred Shuttlesworth, Frank Wilkinson, and Aubrey Williams. The collection includes a large number of chronologically-arranged sound recordings of the Bradens' speeches and interviews, SCEF and SOC activities and meetings. Among the individuals documented in this manner are Ralph Abernathy, Stokely Carmichael, Ben Chavis, Ron Chisholm, Walter Collins, James Dombrowski, Jesse Jackson, Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick, Maurice McCrackin, William Howard Melish, Amzie Moore, Robert Moses, Jack O'Dell, Anne Romaine, Pete Seeger, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Howard Zinn. The photographs include portraits and snapshots of the Bradens, events in their careers, a historical exhibit, and photographs of demonstrations, union activities, and conferences submitted for publication in the Southern Patriot and Fight-Back. Pictured are Ben Chavis, Angela Davis, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, C.T. Vivian, and Aubrey Williams.

ArchivalResource: 99.6 cubic feet (62 records center cartons, 93 archives boxes, and 1 card box), 1.4 cubic feet of photographs (3 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize folder), 0.1 cubic feet of posters (1 oversize folder), 177 tape recordings, 15 disc recordings, 5 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 1 film, and 5 videorecordings

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00006 View

Kramer, Arthur W., 1906-1998. Arthur W. Kramer sound recording collection, 1958-1965.

Title: Arthur W. Kramer sound recording collection, 1958-1965.

Tape recordings (7" and some 5" reels) of speeches by conservative and anti-communist lecturers.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/311864423 View

Braden, Carl, 1914-1975. Carl and Anne Braden papers, 1928-2006.

Title: Carl and Anne Braden papers, 1928-2006.

Papers, 1928-2006, of Louisville, Kentucky, civil rights activists Carl and Anne Braden, primarily documenting their work with the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), 1954-1974, and the Social Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC), 1974-2006. Additional records of SCEF and its predecessor, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (1938-1948) are also included and were once in the possession of James Dombrowski, who headed both organizations before the Bradens. Dombrowski's early records include executive board minutes; subject files; and correspondence (some available only on microfilm) with leaders such as James Aronson, Leonard Boudin, Virginia and Clifford Durr, James Forman, and William Howard Melish; Harvey and Jessie O'Connor, Fred Shuttlesworth, Frank Wilkinson, and Aubrey Williams. The collection includes a large number of chronologically-arranged sound recordings of the Bradens' speeches and interviews, and SCEF and SOC activities and meetings. Among the individuals documented in this manner are Ralph Abernathy, Stokely Carmichael, Ben Chavis, Ron Chisholm, Walter Collins, James Dombrowski, Jesse Jackson, Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick, Maurice McCrackin, William Howard Melish, Amzie Moore, Robert Moses, Jack O'Dell, Anne Romaine, Pete Seeger, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Howard Zinn. The photographs include portraits and snapshots of the Bradens, events in their careers, a historical exhibit, and photographs of demonstrations, union activities, and conferences submitted for publication in the Southern Patriot and Fight-Back. Pictured are Ben Chavis, Angela Davis, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, C.T. Vivian, and Aubrey Williams.

ArchivalResource: 14 disc recordings,5 reels of microfilm (35mm),2 films, and5 videorecordings

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/370445785 View

Young, Quentin, 1923-. Papers, 1964-1975.

Title: Papers, 1964-1975.

Papers, mainly 1967-1968. of Young, a Chicago physician and medical activist, chiefly relating to his activities as national and Chicago area leader of the Medical Committee for Human Rights.

ArchivalResource: 2.2 c.f. (6 archives boxes) and.7 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173699958 View

Buchanan, Nancy. See I A [videorecording] : version II / by Nancy Buchanan.

Title: See I A [videorecording] : version II / by Nancy Buchanan. [1981]

An examination of the mythology surrounding the Central Intelligence Agency, including interviews with Dr. Fred Landis, expert on psychological warfare, and Frank Wilkinson of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation.

ArchivalResource: 1 videocassette of 1 (U-Matic) (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original (2 copies)1 videocassette of 1 (Betacam SP) (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. archival master.1 videocassette of 1 (Digital Betacam) (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. copy master.1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. use copy.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123502377 View

Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection, 1940s-1950s

Title: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection 1940s-1950s

The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection is comprised of 225 black and white photographs, which were produced by the Los Angeles Housing Authority during the 1940s and 1950s. These photographs depict images of public housing projects such as Elysian Park Heights (Chavez Ravine), Rose Hill Courts, Pueblo del Rio, Aliso Village, Hacienda Village, William Mead Homes, Estrada Courts, Ramona Gardens, Basilone Homes and Rodger Young Village. Also included in the collection are photographs of public housing officials Frank Wilkinson and Howard Holtzendorff, housing advocate Monsignor Thomas O'Dwyer, and municipal officials including Los Angeles Mayors Fletcher Bowron and Norris Poulson. Additionally represented here are powerful images of Los Angeles slum conditions during the 1940s.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (6 document boxes; 1 flat box); 200 online items

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt7c602472 View

Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles, 1947-1998 (bulk 1947-1957)

Title: Leonard Nadel photographs and other material relating to housing and urban redevelopment in Los Angeles 1947-1998 (bulk 1947-1957)

The collection consists of negatives, contact prints, notes, two unpublished books, and related documents produced by the photojournalist Leonard Nadel primarily between 1947-1957, which includes the period when he worked as a documentary photographer for the Los Angeles Housing Authority (HACLA). This material records the city of Los Angeles's mid-century efforts to promote public housing for its growing multi-ethnic population. It also includes Nadel's documentation of the existing slum housing in areas that the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) had targeted for commericial revitalization in the late 1940s through the mid-1950s.

ArchivalResource: 8.75 linear feet; (14 boxes)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/c8p55kvk View

National Committee against Repressive Legislation (U.S.). Records, 1952-1980.

Title: Records, 1952-1980.

Records of a national political organization founded in 1960 as the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee by Alexander Meiklejohn and Aubrey Williams to work for the abolition of HUAC and other congressional and state investigating committees and to defend civil liberties from repressive legislation.

ArchivalResource: 27.0 c.f. (66 archives boxes)3 reels of microfilm (35 mm.), and.2 tape recordings; plus.33.1 c.f. of unprocessed additions.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17271520 View

New South Wales Institute of Journalists. Complementary dinner to Frank Wilkinson by his fellow pressmen of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists, April 15, 1910 [manuscript].

Title: Complementary dinner to Frank Wilkinson by his fellow pressmen of the New South Wales Institute of Journalists, April 15, 1910 [manuscript]. 1910.

Water-coloured illuminated autograph card signed by Wilkinson's fellow pressmen for the occasion.

ArchivalResource: 1 illuminated autograph card : watercolour ; 47.5 x 36.8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/224196510 View

Monterey Public Library. California History Room. Biography clippings : "W" [surname] folder 1875-2005.

Title: Biography clippings : "W" [surname] folder 1875-2005.

ArchivalResource: 4 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/636768479 View

National Committee Against Repressive Legislation. Records, 1948-2003.

Title: Records, 1948-2003.

Records of the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation (NCARL), a national political organization founded in 1960 as the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee by Alexander Meiklejohn, Aubrey Williams, and others to work for the abolition of HUAC and other congressional and state investigating committees and to defend civil liberties from repressive legislation. In 1976, the organization was renamed the National Committee Against Repressive Legislation. The collection contains extensive documentation on the case of (executive director Frank) Wilkinson v. FBI, as well as information on NCARL's interaction with other organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF); NCARL's regional offices; and concerned individuals, including Carl and Anne Braden and Robert Drinan.

ArchivalResource: 26.2 c.f. (66 archives boxes),3 reels of microfilm (35mm),2 tape recordings,23 photographs, and13 pieces of ephemera; plusadditions of 114.3 c.f.,44 tape recordings,68 photographs,5 negatives, and2 transparencies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/613414958 View

Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1872-1964. Papers, 1880-1969.

Title: Papers, 1880-1969.

Papers of a noted educator and civil libertarian.

ArchivalResource: 28.0 c.f. (69 archives boxes); plusadditions of 1 folder, and3 tape recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692692 View