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Box 1

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Contains 30 Results:

Pacific Reporter - People vs. Zamorra, 1944

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists mostly of materials gathered by Ron Lopez for his research into the Sleepy Lagoon murder case. Primary documents include statements and correspondence from various groups advocating for the rights of the defendants. Secondary documents include clippings and scholarly articles on the trials and the Zoot Suit Riots. There is also material from the 1920s-1930s and 1960s-1970s about the condition of Mexican Americans more generally. Virtually everything in the collection...
Dates: 1944
Found in: Chicano Studies Research Center Library / Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Collection

"Statistics" by Ed. Duran Ayres, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Profoundly racist essay on the biological disposition of Mexicans to crime.

Dates: undated
Found in: Chicano Studies Research Center Library / Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Collection

"Report of Special Committee on Problems of Mexican Youth of the 1942 Grand Jury of Los Angeles County", 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists mostly of materials gathered by Ron Lopez for his research into the Sleepy Lagoon murder case. Primary documents include statements and correspondence from various groups advocating for the rights of the defendants. Secondary documents include clippings and scholarly articles on the trials and the Zoot Suit Riots. There is also material from the 1920s-1930s and 1960s-1970s about the condition of Mexican Americans more generally. Virtually everything in the collection...
Dates: 1942
Found in: Chicano Studies Research Center Library / Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Collection

Special Mexican Relations Committee, 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

Includes letters to various U.S. government officials; letter to the grand jury.

Dates: 1942
Found in: Chicano Studies Research Center Library / Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Collection

Grand Jury testimony, 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Contains: statement by Walter H.C. Laves of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; testimony of Carey McWilliams; "Tabulation of Facts on Conditions in Hicks' Mexican Camp"; testimony of Guy T. Nunn of the War Manpower Commission; "The Problem of Crime among the Mexican Youth of Los Angeles" bu Harry Hoijer; paper presented by Manuel Aguilar of the Mexican consulate; paper presented by Oscar Fuss of the CIO; letter from Sheriff E. W. Biscailuz.

Dates: 1942
Found in: Chicano Studies Research Center Library / Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Collection

Handwritten notes, 1939 - 1967

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists mostly of materials gathered by Ron Lopez for his research into the Sleepy Lagoon murder case. Primary documents include statements and correspondence from various groups advocating for the rights of the defendants. Secondary documents include clippings and scholarly articles on the trials and the Zoot Suit Riots. There is also material from the 1920s-1930s and 1960s-1970s about the condition of Mexican Americans more generally. Virtually everything in the collection...
Dates: 1939 - 1967
Found in: Chicano Studies Research Center Library / Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Collection

Bilingualism, 1967 - 1968

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes Congressional Record excerpt; press release from Congressman George Brown.

Dates: 1967 - 1968
Found in: Chicano Studies Research Center Library / Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Collection

Council for Civic Unity, 1944

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists mostly of materials gathered by Ron Lopez for his research into the Sleepy Lagoon murder case. Primary documents include statements and correspondence from various groups advocating for the rights of the defendants. Secondary documents include clippings and scholarly articles on the trials and the Zoot Suit Riots. There is also material from the 1920s-1930s and 1960s-1970s about the condition of Mexican Americans more generally. Virtually everything in the collection...
Dates: 1944
Found in: Chicano Studies Research Center Library / Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Collection

"The Zoot Suit Riots" by Elizabeth C. Fahr, 1971

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection consists mostly of materials gathered by Ron Lopez for his research into the Sleepy Lagoon murder case. Primary documents include statements and correspondence from various groups advocating for the rights of the defendants. Secondary documents include clippings and scholarly articles on the trials and the Zoot Suit Riots. There is also material from the 1920s-1930s and 1960s-1970s about the condition of Mexican Americans more generally. Virtually everything in the collection...
Dates: 1971
Found in: Chicano Studies Research Center Library / Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Collection

Dimitroff, James Stephan - correspondence, 1967 - 1968

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Contains letters to a UCLA student writing a thesis on the Sleepy Lagoon murder case. Most of these are responses to research inquiries. Includes letters from Marvin Braude, Alice McGrath, Carey McWilliams, J. Edgar Hoover. The most substantive letter is the first four pages from an unidentified correspondent, possibly Guy Nunn.

Dates: 1967 - 1968
Found in: Chicano Studies Research Center Library / Ron Lopez Sleepy Lagoon Research Collection

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