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Scope and Contents From the Series: This series contains materials related to San Francisco-based anti-fascists who fought in the Spanish Civil War as part of the International Battalion the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALB). It includes the letters that fighters in the ALB wrote from battlefields of Spain to their friends back home in the San Francisco Bay Area, detailing their experiences, political convictions, and reflections on the nature of warfare. This series also contains materials related to the Friends of the Abraham...

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Records include subject and reference files, Board of Directors material, correspondence, financial documents, booklets, and Trade Trax issues (1981-1992).

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consisting of materials generated by the California Labor School, spanning the entire life of the School from its founding as the Tom Mooney Labor School in 1942 until its closing by the Internal Revenue Service in 1957, this collection offers researchers a multi-faceted view of the California Labor School and its place in the left-wing community of the San Francisco Bay Area. Materials include: catalogs, announcements, brochures, publications, class syllabi, correspondence, financial...

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Series contains clippings and ephemera relating to politicians, world leaders, writers, actors, civil rights activists, refugees, elected officials, and labor union members and leaders.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Collection comprises images of rural California migrant workers and their families; Salinas lettuce strike; shantytowns in Sacramento; waterfront docks and longshoremen in San Francisco (including several of Harry Bridges); Pomo Indians; Mare Island shipyards and workers; Heart Mountain Japanese internment camp; civil rights marches; children from government program Head Start; San Francisco State College faculty; Jack London's house in Glen Ellen; Fort Ross; Lee Goldblatt and John Nixon...

Contents From the Series: Contains correspondence between Anderson and individuals with whom he had a working relationship with or followed. Figures include Cesar Chavez; Ernesto Galarza; Prof. Gilbert G. Gonzalez of U.C. Riverside; A. V. Krebs of the Agribusiness Accountability Project; Father Thomas McCullough; H. L. Mitchell, president of the National Agricultural Workers Union and co-founder of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union; Eugene Nelson of the Independent Workers Association in Texas; and Dr. Ben Yellen of...

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Images of strikes and demonstrations in San Francisco and other locations in California, and a few out of state.

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Comprises copy negatives of prints featured in various issues of People's World. Also includes 35mm negatives and contact sheets of individuals and groups at demonstrations and strikes. Many of the contact sheets and 35mm negatives remain unidentified.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection contains materials about the status of employees as contract workers or regular employees; issues of workplace safety; gate control (a fee the taxicab driver pays their parent company each shift); records from city hearings about the public convenience and necessity of cabs; applications and records related to permits and medallions; arbitration and other legal documents. The collection also includes one carton of materials created by Ruach Graffis, a long-time San Francisco...