Manuscripts
Los Angeles Public Housing: correspondence and administrative records
- Description
- A collection of 465 items from 1923 to 1983. The first section deals with public housing in Los Angeles and covers the Citizens' Committee for Better Housing; the Civilian Defense Housing Committee; Aliso Village and Ramona Gardens. Included is correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, and press releases. Additionally, there is material related to the dismissal of Roger C. Johnson as manager of Aliso Village. The second section deals with the Los Angeles Newspaper Guild and its role as a labor union chapter of the American Newspaper Guild. Included is correspondence, press releases, meeting minutes, reports, administrative papers, and guild publications. The third section covers politics, specifically Roger C. Johnson's role on the Committee of 25 of the Federation for Civic Betterment and his role as campaign coordinator for Judge Ben Barr Lindsey; the material regarding Judge Lindsey's campaign includes correspondence, press releases, and reports. The material regarding the Committee of 25 includes correspondence, meeting minutes, and press releases that cover the recall election of Mayor Frank L. Shaw in 1938.
- Date
- 1923-1945
