Saxton, Alexander

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Alexander Plaisted Saxton was born July 16, 1919 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts; AB, University of Chicago, 1940; MA (1962) and Ph.D (1967), UC Berkeley; after teaching at UC Berkeley and Wayne State University, Saxton began teaching in the Department of History at UCLA in 1968; his writings include Grand crossing (1943), The great midland (1948), Bright web in the darkness (1958), The great fear (1970), and The indispensable enemy: labor and the anti-Chinese movement in California (1971).

From the guide to the Alexander Saxton Papers, 1846-1990 bulk 1936-1990, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.)

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