California Labor School, Subversive Activities Control Board Hearings, 1940-1956
Scope and Contents
The Norman Leonard Collection holds documents of the Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB) hearing in 1955-1956 on the California Labor School (CLS) when that law firm represented the School. The Collection includes transcripts for each day of the hearing and approximate 260 exhibits which the SACB introduced into evidence.
Forty-five exhibits were copies of the People's World and other documents by or about the Communist Party. The balance consisted of CLS documents - term catalogs, flyers, class outlines, etc. - which will provide researchers additional documents and supplement the Archives CLS Collection. Of significance are documents describing the founding and activities of the Southern California Labor School (Southern CLS), as there is no material on that branch in the original CLS Collection.
Dates
- 1940-1956
Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 219.8 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Arrangement
Except for the term catalogs and class listings found at the beginning of this Collection, the exhibits are not in any subject or chronological order; they are arranged by exhibit number for the transcripts; the beginning of each transcript volume has a listing of the exhibits introduced that day. To facilitate researchers who are primarily researching CLS activities, a listing of exhibit materials produced by the School has been extracted and reorganized to follow the subject arrangement used in the CLS Collection. The documents can be located by their exhibit numbers.
Creator
- From the Collection: Leonard, Norman (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Labor Archives and Research Center Repository
San Francisco State University
J. Paul Leonard Library, Room 460
1630 Holloway Ave
San Francisco 94132-1722 USA
(415) 405-5571
larc@sfsu.edu