Manuscripts

Civil Rights

Description: Approx. 15 items: a collection of articles, opinion pieces, and letters to the Editor on the subjects of civil rights legislation, race relations and law enforcement, discrimination against individuals for country club memberships (Joseph Wambaught), etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1963 - 1975
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Dues and membership

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: memos,correspondence and reports related to dues and memberships in the period 1979 - 1988.

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L - Miscellaneous Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items. Memos, letters, newspaper clippings. Subjects include: Proposition A (1959); objections to Moiseyev Dancers' appearance at Shrine Auditorium; racial discrimination by some Long Beach State College sororities; alleged "libelous" statements about Rep. James Utt by columnist Paul Coates; exchange of letters between Williams and Sterling Lord Agency regarding series of 10 columns by James Simon Kunen, described by Lord as "hitchhiking revolutionary bard and author of The Strawberry Statement; departure of Fay Hammond, arrival of new Fashion editor Mary Lou Luther; essay by Art Kunkin, Editor/Publisher of the Los Angeles Free Press; exchange of letters with Los Angeles County Commission Against Indecent Literature; etc.

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Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: memos and letters on subjects such as: a (very) brief history of LAT advertising; Editor & Publisher article, 2/6/1971, "(LAT) news staff doubled... in 10 years" ; flurry of communications relating to controversial "Doonesbury" comic strip ; opinion writers ; more.

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E - Miscellaneous Correspondence

Manuscripts

Approx. 40 items. Subjects include: moral values in motion pictures & indecency in advertising; "the red-neck tradition" in Southern politics (in letter to E. Etheridge, June 1969); the deal to reprint articles from The Economist; an opinion survey published in Editor & Publisher rating opinion writers, including LAT's, on ideology; Williams reaction to American Center for Education's (previously mentioned) survey alleged that 18% of LAT columnist were "radical liberal" and another 32% were "extreme liberal; etc.

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Civil Rights - School Integration

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: LAT article and editorial page copies and LAT reprints, 1961 - 1972, related to racial prejudice, school integration, busing to achieve racially mixed schools, etc.

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Departments - Legal - Federal Trade Commission Case

Manuscripts

Approx. 15 items: clip, 8/18/1977, LAT, "FTC accuses Times of ad discrimination"; Wall St. Journal clip (same date), rate structure at (LAT) attacked"; several teletype tear sheets, 9/25/1981, sample headline, "Times Mirror to seek dismissal of FTC complaint"; LAT clip, 9/26/1981, "FTC tentatively approves Times ad discount accord"; article copy, AdWeek, 10/5/1981"; LAT ad run in Editor & Publisher, 7/24/1982, "A special message to our friends--thank you!...On August 17, 1977, the (FTC) filed charges against the (LAT).....on July 7, 1982, the FTC unanimously voted to dismiss the charges..."; etc.

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Civil Rights

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