Ben Yellen / Charles L. Smith correspondence, 1960-2006.

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Ben Yellen / Charles L. Smith correspondence, 1960-2006.

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Correspondence with Charles L. Smith, a Berkeley, California, pamphleteer, water issues bibliographer and Yellen admirer, regarding water issues in California, especially the Imperial Valley.

.2 lin. ft. (1 archive box)

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Desert Growers Assoc.

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Yellen, Ben, 1907-1994

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An American physician educated and trained at Columbia University and the Long Island School of Medicine, Yellen migrated to Brawley, Calif., in 1942, where he founded a successful medical practice that primarily served agricultural workers and migrants. Approximately ten years later, Yellen emerged as one of the leading proponents for enforcing rights of local farm workers (domestic and migrant) and for inhibiting the growth of large, corporate farms. In 1961, Yellen helped to usher through the...

Smith, Charles L.,

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Imperial Irrigation District (Calif.).

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