Manuscripts

Scopes Trial

Description: 4 items, all LAT article copies: "Courts to test right of state to bar Darwinism," 5/14/1925 ; "Monkey business" (editorial), 5/19/1925 ; "Faith and evolution" (editorial), 7/14/1925 ; "Much ado about little" (editorial), 7/23/1925.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1925
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Employees - Sherman, Gene

Manuscripts

4 items: LAT clip, 7/23/1944, "Gene Sherman to cover Pacific for The Times"; Copy of LAT editorial, 7/19/1959, "A start on narcotic control"; 10-pp. reprint package, "Mexican monkey on our back," a series of 8 articles by Gene Sherman on narcotics traffic; single-sheet bio, "Biography -- Gene Sherman (ca. 1963).

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Civil Rights - American Civil Liberties Union

Manuscripts

4 items: booklet, Fifty Years of the American Civil Liberties Union, 1973; LAT article clip, 12/9/1973, "Lear, Cronkite, Times honored" ; LAT editorial clip, 7/14/1974, "The ACLU...destination unknown" ; LAT clip, 7/21/1974, "Letters to The Times," on the earlier ACLU editorial.

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Los Angeles - History - 1900 - 1920

Manuscripts

7 items. LAT articles and other materials about the time frame 1900 to 1920: LAT feature, 11/13/1952, "Downtown life in 1912 and after"; two 1952 letters to LAT on life in L.A. in 1912 ; LAT editorial piece, 1/3/1955, "Great dreams backed by action"; title page and 4-pp. of text from A Backward Glance...Los Angeles 1901 - 1915 by Robert Cowan, Torrey Press, 1969 ; LAT feature, 5/14/1973, "L.A. in 1913...a million miles away from it all" ; LAT article, 7/17/1977, "The Los Angeles pseudo-seduction of Henry James," on James' 1905 visit to L.A.

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Awards - Pulitzer Prize 1971 - Paul Conrad

Manuscripts

7 items: Among Ourselves article copy, 5/1964, "Paul Conrad wins Pulitzer Prize"; copies (and dupes) of AP, LAT and Among Ourselves stories about Paul Conrad winning his second Pulitzer for Editorial cartooning in 5/1971; LAT article copy, 5/9/1971, "Conrad honored."

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Civil Disobedience - Campus Unrest

Manuscripts

5 items: LAT editorial copy, "Dissent on the campuses," 9/29/1968; LAT editorial copy, "Verdict in the Valley State Case," 11/20/1969; LAT article copy, "Kent State...the lessons of Orangeburg were ignored," 5/10/1970; LAT editorial copy, "College unrest and the public," 6/21/1970; LAT article copy, "Study of a college massacre," 10/23/1970.

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Knight, Goodwin J

Manuscripts

4 items: LAT editorial, 8/25/1954 (during K.'s governorship), "The Governor ties his own hands" ; 2-pp. typed, headed "Goodwin J. Knight - a biographical sketch," 5/1/1958 ; LAT politcal column by James Bassett, "7/2/1961, "Could a Knight-Nixon deal win for both?" ; LAT obit copy, 5/23/1970, "Goodwin Knight, state's 31st governor, dies of pneumonia."

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