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[The Petitioners: typed draft, Parts 1 and 2] (1966). 1 item

Description
The collection contains 10,454 semi-cataloged items andis housed in 72 boxes and 3 oversize folders. The collection documents Loren Miller's four decades of fighting for equality and civil rights and his legal work against racial real estate covenants and discrimination in housing. It contains material related to his work with several organizations including the NAACP, National Urban League and the ACLU. The collection also contains material related to Loren Miller's personal life and family as well as his journalism career and ownership of the California eagle. The collection also contains many items related to Langston Hughes including letters written between Miller and Hughes and copies of some of Hughes' writings. The collection contains the following types of material: correspondence, telegrams, postcards, manuscripts, speeches, newspaper and magazine clippings, publications including full magazines, briefs and other legal documents, brochures, meeting minutes, reports and photographs as well as research notes for and drafts of Miller's book The petitioners: The story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1876-2003.
Call number
mssMiller
Creator
Miller, Loren(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Loren Miller, Jr., donated in memory of Juanita Ellsworth Miller and Loren Miller, December 2006.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED: Use digital surrogates for items isolated in Mold Boxes 1-13. Items found to contain mold have been removed from the collection, cleaned, isolated and digitized. Dummy folders indicate the original location of the isolated items within the collection.
Associated people
Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, (1898-1989.)
Bowron, Fletcher, (1887-1968.)
Bradley, Tom, (1917-1998.)
Brown, Edmund G. (1905-1996.)
Colley, Nathaniel Sextus, (1918-)
Granger, Lester B. (1896-1976.)
Hawkins, Augustus F. (1902-1967.)
Hughes, Langston, (1917-1963.)
Kennedy, John F. (1925-1968.)
Kennedy, Robert F., (1908-1993.)
Marshall, Thurgood, (1901-1985.)
Moon, Henry Lee, (1912-2001.)
Mosk, Stanley, (1893-1955.)
White, Walter, (1901-1981.)
Wilkins, Roy, (1917-1990.)
Williams, Franklin,
Associated organizations
American Civil Liberties Union.
American Federation of Labor.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Congress of Racial Equality.
Japanese American Citizens' League.
League of Struggle for Negro Rights (U.S.)
Los Angeles Urban League.
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing.
National Negro Congress (U.S.)
National Urban League.
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