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Box 1

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Contains 30 Results:

The New Republic editorials, 1943 - 1944

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
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: 1943 - 1944

"Information for the 1942 Los Angeles County Grand Jury", 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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

Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, 1943 - 1945

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents

Includes: letter from Chet Huntley; mailings from Carey McWilliams; report from Alice Greenfield about her trip to Folsom and Sen Quentin prisons; cartoon sketch of a zoot suiter by Delgado; "The Sleepy Lagoon Mystery" by Guy Endore; group photo of defendants inscribed "To Alice with love from her boys."

Dates: 1943 - 1945

Los Angeles Department of Police - correspondence, 1942

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
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

Los Angeles Times - clippings, 1942 - 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
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 - 1943

Survey on television viewing and newspaper delivery, circa 1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
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: circa 1974

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

"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

"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