Papers, 1963-1997.

ArchivalResource

Green, Dorothy, 1929-2008. Papers, 1963-1997.

Papers, 1963-1997.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191884580

Collection consists of the papers and campaign documents of the various policy areas on which Mrs. Green worked, ranging from national campaign finance reform to water policy in Southern California. Much of the collection consists of internal correspondence and policy papers from the various nonprofits Dorothy Green founded and worked for, including the California League of Conservation Voters, Common Cause, Heal the Bay, Women For:, the Working Alliance to Equalize Rates, and others. These materials provide valuable insight into the structure and organization of nonprofit organizations. The bulk of the collection chronicles water policy in California from the 1970s to the 1990s. Mrs. Green was an active opponent of the Peripheral Canal and the collection includes exhaustive documentation of the Peripheral Canal ballot initiative (Proposition 9 of 1982). There is also documentation of the dispute between Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Inyo County over the fate of Mono Lake and Los Angeles' water supply in the 1980s and early 1990s. A good deal of correspondence with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California rounds out these issues. Mrs. Green's interest in energy policy is reflected in the many boxes devoted to energy, especially the dangers of nuclear energy, and energy alternatives. The Common Cause materials and Californians for Campaign Reform form part of a larger series on governmental accountability and money in politics.

87 boxes (43.5 linear feet)

University of California, Los Angeles