Martin F. Block papers 1935-1995 (bulk1950-1955)

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Martin F. Block papers 1935-1995 (bulk1950-1955)

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Materials documenting Martin F. Block'sactivities as a writer, founder and first editor of , and as a board member of the Celebration Theatre, Hollywood,in the 1980s. The collection includes unpublished poetry and prose 1938-1953and 1982-1984, by Block, Howard Griffin, and Ramon Mendez, as well ascorrespondence, clippings, ephemera, and a transcript of an interview relatingto Block's career, personal life, and to the founding of ONE, Inc. ONEMagazine

1 archive carton; 0.2 linear foot

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ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6656996

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Griffin, John Howard, 1920-1980

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American writer, social critic, journalist, and humanitarian. From the description of Collection, 1952-1980. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122632950 John Howard Griffin, born June 16, 1920, in Dallas, Texas, was a writer, journalist, humanitiarian, and social critic. Griffin was educated at the Institute de Tours, the University of Poitiers, and the Conservatory of Fontainbleau, all in France....

Block, Martin F., 1919-1995

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Biography Martin Fiddler Block was born on July 27, 1919. As a teenager he delivered merchandise for a bookstore in New York City. After graduating from high school he found employment as a buttonhole maker. He later worked for Doubleday, Doran Book Shops becoming, upon completion of military service, night manager for the firm's shop in Grand Central Terminal. He then obtained employment in the publishing business. He moved to Los Angeles in...

Celebration Theatre (Los Angeles)

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One, Inc.

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ONE Inc. was founded in the last months of 1952, employed W. Dorr Legg as business manager in June 1953, and was officially incorporated by October 1953. The articles of incorporation declared that ONE Inc.'s primary goal was "to publish and disseminate a magazine dealing primarily with homosexuality from a scientific, historical and critical point of view, and to aid in the social integration and rehabilitation of the sexual variant." The publication of ONE Magazine, first release...

Rowland, Charles D., 1917-1990

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Mendez, Ramon, d. 1953

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