Ron Wilkins Los Angeles Community Alert Patrol Collection
Scope and Contents
The Ron Wilkins Los Angeles Community Alert Patrol Collection includes Wilkins’s published book, original Community Alert Patrol (CAP) materials including a volunteer roster and patrol reports, news clippings about CAP, and Wilkins’s teaching materials and speeches about the Community Alert Patrol. The materials document police brutality and racism in Los Angeles, California focusing on the time period following the 1965 Watts Riots, also known as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising. Notably, the CAP reports provide firsthand accounts of police activity, brutality and interactions with Black community members. Materials are arranged alphabetically by folder title.
Dates
- Creation: 1966-2023
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research use.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of this collection has not been transferred to California State University, Northridge. Copyright status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Biographical / Historical
Ron Wilkins is an activist and scholar focusing on Pan-African international organizing, revolutionary photojournalism, and strengthening mutually supportive relationships between Black and Brown peoples. He was the head of the Community Organizing Patrol (CAP) and a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
The Community Organizing Patrol (CAP) was founded in June 1966 by the Temporary Alliance of Local Organizations (TALO). It was the first civilian volunteer patrol group in the U.S. to “police the police”. It operated for approximately one year. The group used patrol cars to move around the Los Angeles area, used radios provided by SNCC to communicate, submitted nightly reports, and worked to keep an eye on the Los Angeles Police force, trying to improve the treatment of Black community members.
Full Extent
.208 Linear Feet (1 box)
Full Extent
2.07 Gigabytes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Ron Wilkins Los Angeles Community Alert Patrol Collection contains Wilkins’s published book, original Community Alert Patrol (CAP) materials including a volunteer roster and patrol reports, related news clippings, and Wilkins’s teaching materials and speeches about CAP. Ron Wilkins was the head of the Community Organizing Patrol, founded in June 1966 to "police the police." The materials document police brutality and racism in Los Angeles, California focusing on the time period following the 1965 Watts Riots, also known as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Ron Wilkins, 2024.
Processing Information
Carri Frola, 2024.
Genre / Form
- Title
- Guide To The Ron Wilkins Los Angeles Community Alert Patrol Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Date
- 2024-03-18
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections & Archives Repository
University Library
California State University, Northridge
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Northridge CA 91330-8326 USA
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