Papers, 1930-1978.

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Papers, 1930-1978.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39451907

Collection consists of photocopies of US government documents obtained by communist leader Dorothy Healey under the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts. Includes correspondence with Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, with government agencies regarding release of her files, and with others. Also contains materials released by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Department of Defense, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). These include surveillance requests and reports, phone tapping requests, a file designed for prosecution of communist functionaries under the Smith Act, and information about Angela Davis and the Angela Davis defense fund.

4 boxes (2 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7414216

University of California, Los Angeles

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Healey, Dorothy, 1914-2006

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Healey was born Dorothy Rosenblum in 1914 in Denver, CO; her mother was a founding member of the Communist Party of the United States; her parents moved to CA in 1921, and Dorothy grew up in Oakland; joined Young Communist League in 1928, and was arrested during the May Day unemployment demonstrations there in 1930; left high school in 1931 to work in a cannery in San Jose; joined the Communist Party when she turned 18; became organizer of migrant farm workers, and in 1940 was appointed a deputy...