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...

Abstract The oral history interviews of female ILWU members were conducted between the years 1993 and 1997 as part of the ILWU, Local 13 "Women on the Waterfront" Oral History Project. They were conducted as a continuation of the ILWU Oral History Project which documented the stories of the union's workforce who labored on the docks of the Southern California Waterfront between the 1930s and 1960s. After the "1982 Golden et al. Consent Decree" more and more women came to work on the West Coast docks....

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The World War II Survivors Oral History Project includes 29 oral history interviews with individuals who lived in Europe during World War II.

Abstract Fred Hardon interviewed Malcolm X, a human rights activist and Black religious and nationalist leader, at Hardon's home in 1963. It aired on the radio station KTYM 103.9 FM. Interview topics include equal rights for Black people in a white-controlled society, Nation of Islam beliefs, criticism of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s approach, and discussion of the 1963 Los Angeles trial regarding the April 27, 1962 Los Angeles Police Department shooting of several Nation of Islam members and the murder...