cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0154
title: Nellie Becker-Slaton, circa 1941/1950(?), Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Nellie Becker-Slaton. Nellie Becker came to Los Angeles from Rhode Island and lived with Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, during the 1940s. She worked as a staff writer at the California Eagle. Becker later married William Slaton and the couple had three children.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0142
title: Charlotta Bass gathers the mail outside her home, circa 1961/1969, Elsinore

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, right, taking the mail out of the mail box of her home at 709 West Heald Avenue in Elsinore. The identify of the woman on the left is unknown. Bass moved to Elsinore (now Lake Elsinore), California in 1960.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0137
title: Charlotta Bass and friends celebrate a birthday, Elsinore, November 1962

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, seated in center, and a group of friends in the back yard of Bass' home in Elsinore (now Lake Elsinore) California. Bass and the six unidentified women appear to be celebrating a birthday, because they are wearing birthday party hats. The celebration could be for Bass, who, according to some biographies, was born in October; the date printed on the photograph is November 1962.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0139
title: Charlotta Bass and friends, circa 1961/1969

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, seated at the left, and a group of friends. The three people in the top row, from left, are Ruth Brent, Jimmy McGowan and Ethel McGowan; the woman seated next to Bass is unidentified.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0135
title: Charlotta Bass and friends visit in a back yard, Elsinore(?), circa 1961/1969

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, second from right, and a group of her friends in a back yard. The photograph could have been taken at Bass' home in Elsinore, California. Bass moved to Elsinore (now Lake Elsinore) in 1960 after living in Los Angeles for more than 40 years.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0334
title: Anne Shore brings Seasons Greetings to the U.S. Attorney, Dec. 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Anne Shore, national executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress, with a greeting card and petition for U.S. Attorney James Carter. The petition, with a drawing of Santa Claus behind prison bars, urges Carter to dismiss charges "against victims of the Grand Jury Witch Hunt in L.A." In 1948, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles was investigating the Communist Party of Los Angeles. People called before the grand jury could name other members of the Communist Party, or they could refuse to testify; if they refused, they were cited for contempt and sent to jail. On Oct. 25, 1948, 10 individuals were subpoened at around 7 a.m., and eight of the 10 were called to testify before the grand jury at 10 a.m. that day. The 10 refused to answer any questions, citing their privilege against self-incrimination. Later that evening, a judge found the 10 people in contempt and ordered them imprisoned until they answered the grand jury's questions. The 10 were released after more than a week in jail but ordered to answer another round of questions. Another 11 people were called before the grand jury and subjected to the same treatment. The Civil Rights Congress and other defenders of civil liberties organized numerous protests to denounce legal proceedings against the "Los Angeles 21."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0304
title: Multiracial troop of Bluebirds gathers at Evening Star Baptist Church, circa 1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a multiracial troop of Bluebirds posing in front of the Evening Star Baptist Church. The sign states the church is located at 1123 East 34th Street, and the Rev. L.S. Brooks is its pastor.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0308
title: The Hewletts at a family gathering, circa 941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of the Hewletts published in the California Eagle. The identities of the individual family members are not known.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0323
title: Anne Shore of the Civil Rights Congress at the podium, 1949, New York(?)

description: Photograph of Anne Shore, national executive secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), standing at a podium. Shore appears to be chairing a meeting, because there is a gavel on the podium, as well as a microphone. The man seated at the left behind Shore is William Patterson, national executive director of the CRC. During its existence from 1946 to 1956, the CRC fought for and established numerous civil rights and liberties rulings that expanded the rights of U.S. citizens.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0320
title: Members of San Francisco Civil Rights Congress Citizens Jury visit Los Angeles, March 12, 1952

description: Photograph of five members of the San Francisco Civil Rights Congress (CRC) Citizens Jury during a visit to Los Angeles. During their visit, the Los Angeles CRC hosted a reception for the jurors on Mar. 12, 1952, at a home at 3335 Country Club Drive. The citizens jury was in Los Angeles to view the "Smith Act trials." Enacted in 1940, the Smith Act made it a crime to knowingly or willfully advocate the overthrow of any government in the United States by force or violence. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, citizens in Los Angeles, New York and many other cities throughout the United States were arrested and tried for allegedly violating the Act.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0302
title: Group of African students visit Los Angeles, Oct. 18, 1948

description: Photograph of seven African students on a visit to Los Angeles. The identities of the students, and the names of their native countries, are not known.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0330
title: Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund raises funds for the New York 12, 1949, New York

description: Photograph of three members of the Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund looking at checks the fund has received. The members are, from left, Anne Shore, Lee Bachelis and Max Hittleman. In 1948, 12 members of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. were indicted under the Smith Act, which made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of any U.S. government. Eleven of the 12 defendants were tried in 1949, found guilty and sentenced to prison. The Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund organized a national campaign to raise funds needed to release the defendants on bail.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0314
title: Edna and Joseph Brocks, circa 1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Joseph Brocks and his wife, Edna. Brocks was the subject of a bitter battle to prevent his extradition from Los Angeles to Alabama. The extradition saga began in December 1948, when Brocks and his wife were Christmas shopping in Los Angeles. A police officer accused Brocks of commiting a burglary and took him to the police station, where Brocks was quickly cleared of the charge. But while he was being fingerprinted, police discovered that Brocks was wanted in Alabama, where he had escaped from a chain gang almost six years earlier. At that time, Brocks was known as Bernard White, and was sentenced to serve 10 years on a chain gang after he made a forced confession that he had stolen a bicycle and illegally entered a private home in Thomasville, Ala. White escaped from the chain gang after serving almost three months, changed his name to Joseph Brocks, and moved to Los Angeles. During the extradition battle, Brocks was represented by attorneys affiliated with the Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress (CRC). Attorneys maintained Brocks should not be extradited to Alabama because he would be sentenced to death by the racist Southern justice system. Local chapters of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemens Union, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Mine and Mill and Smelters Workers Union, and several other unions joined in Brocks' defense. Brocks' defenders urged California Gov. Earl Warren to refuse extradition, but Warren honored Alabama's request to reopen Brocks' case. On Feb. 28, 1949, Brocks was taken to an Alabama prison and placed in a death cell. The Civil Rights Congress continued to campaign for Brocks' release.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0331
title: Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund receives funds to release the New York 12, 1949, New York

description: Photograph of three members of the Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund smiling as they receive funds needed to release the "New York 12" from prison.The members are, from left, Anne Shore, Lee Bachelis and Max Hittleman. In 1948, 12 members of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. were indicted under the Smith Act, which made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of any U.S. government. Eleven of the 12 defendants were tried in 1949, found guilty and sentenced to prison. The Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund organized a national campaign to raise the money needed to release the defendants on bail.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0332
title: Check for $1,000 payable to Civil Rights Congress, Nov. 3, 1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a woman's hand holding a check for $1,000 payable to the Civil Rights Congress. The check from the Phillips-Stone Company, at 8810 Beverly Boulevard in Hollywood, was a contribution to the Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund, a national campaign in support of the "New York 12." In 1948, 12 members of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. were indicted under the Smith Act, which made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of any U.S. government. Eleven of the 12 defendants were tried in 1949, found guilty and sentenced to prison. The Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund organized a national campaign to raise the money needed to release the defendants on bail.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0299
title: Couple pose on their wedding day, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of an unidentified couple posing on their wedding day.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0321
title: Jessica Mitford, Dec. 13, 1951, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Bessie Steinberg, right, with Leah Schneiderman, center, and Helen Lima, left. Schneiderman was the wife of William Schneiderman, one of 15 California Communist Party members who were jailed for violating the Smith Act. The Smith Act made it illegal for anyone to advocate the overthrow of any United States government by force or violence. The three women went to a Los Angeles jail to await the release of Schneiderman and 11 other prisoners on Dec. 13, 1951.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0310
title: Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. chats with actor Orson Welles, circa 1944, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., second from left, chatting with actor Orson Welles, right. The four men appear to be on a movie set, because the words "20th Century Fox" are printed on a cabinet on the left of the photo and Welles wears a theatrical costume. A civil rights activist in New York City, Powell succeeded his father as pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1936. In 1944, Powell was elected to the U.S. Congress, where he challenged the informal regulations forbidding African-American representatives from using Capitol facilities reserved for members only. Powell introduced legislation to outlaw lynching and the poll tax and to ban discrimination in the armed forces, housing, employment and transportation.
DOI: 10.25919/rpn1-wg22
title: Ecosystem characteristics and variables for conceptual models for the Gunbower-Koondrook-Perricoota Forest Icon Site (GKP)

description: This spreadsheet contains published and expert-elicited data for different ecosystem variables grouped by ecosystem characteristics in each of the ecosystem states and expressions at GKP. The data was collected as part of the Gunbower-Koondrook-Perricoota Forest Icon Site case study in the Land and Ecosystem Accounts Project and was used to inform the ecosystem extent, condition and flow of ecosystem services from different ecosystem states and types at GKP. Richards et al. (2021) describes detailed methods around the collection and interpretation of datasets (including conceptual models of ecosystem states) included in the spreadsheet. Richards AE, Prober SM, Schmidt RK, Sengupta A, McInerney P and Tetreault-Campbell S (2021) Ecosystem classification and conceptual models for the Gunbower-Koondrook-Perricoota Forest Icon Site. A technical report from the Land and Ecosystem Accounts Project. CSIRO, Australia. https://doi.org/10.25919/7zf8-7073.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0305
title: Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters urge people to buy war savings bonds, circa 1949, Los Angeles

description: Studio photograph of actresses Jeanne Crain, left, and Ethel Waters on a movie set during a break from filming. Waters looks at an oversize reproduction of a $100 war savings bond purchased by "Mr. And Mrs. America" of "Everywhere, U.S.A." Waters holds a sign with the words "Sign up for bonds through payroll savings." Crain holds a hammer to help Waters hang the sign. The two actresses appeared together in the movie, "Pinky," and are wearing costumes worn in the film. "Pinky" was released in 1949, so the photograph had to be taken either before or during that year. The back of the photograph is rubber-stamped with the words "Jeanne Crain, 20th Century-Fox Player."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0329
title: Lawyers for the New York 12 prepare their case, 1949, New York

description: Photograph of lawyers who represented the New York 12, members of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. who were indicted for conspiring to subvert the government. The lawyers, from left to right, are Abraham J. Isserman, George W. Crockett, Richard Gladstein, Harry Sacher and Louis F. McCabe. A federal grand jury, after a sixteen-month investigation of Communist activity in the U.S., indicted 12 party members for organizing a political party dedicated to Marxism-Leninism, promoting Marxism-Leninism in publications, and establishing schools to teach the need to overthrow the government by force or violence. The defendants were indicted under the Smith Act, which made it a crime to knowingly or willfully advocate the overthrow of any government in the U.S. by force or violence. The trial of 11 of the 12 defendants began on Jan. 17, 1949, in the U.S. District Courthouse in Foley Square, New York City, and lasted for nine months. Jurors found the defendants guilty, and Judge Harold Medina sentenced them to terms of three to five years in prison. Medina also sentenced the defendants' lawyers to jail terms of one to six months for contempt of court.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0333
title: Shifra Meyers holds wire copy about "New York 12" trial, 1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Shifra Meyers, right, administrative secretary of the Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress, and several unidentified people holding a lengthy telegram message regarding the trial of the "New York 12." In 1948, 12 members of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. were indicted under the Smith Act, which made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of any U.S. government. Eleven of the 12 defendants were tried in 1949, found guilty and sentenced to prison. The Civil Rights Congress organized a national fund-raising campaign to release the defendants on bail.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0317
title: Lester Tate joins the Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress, January 1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Celia Rodriguez, left, and Shifra Meyers helping Lester Tate sign membership papers to become the first person in 1950 to join the Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress. Rodriguez was financial secretary and Meyers was administrative secretary of CRC, an organization founded in 1946 to defend the rights of labor, African-Americans and other minorities. CRC successfully waged a national campaign to prevent Tate's extradition to Virginia, where he was charged with the attempted robbery of a grocery store. This photograph was published in the California Eagle on Jan. 12, 1950.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0300
title: Four girls pose for the camera, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of four girls, wearing identical dresses, posing for the camera with their hands on their knees. The children may be participating in a dance class or dance recital.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0307
title: The Deep River Boys arrive in New York after a triumphant tour of England, circa 1950

description: Publicity photograph of the Deep River Boys, a vocal quintet, disembarking from the Queen Mary. The caption attached to the photograph reads as follows: "NEW YORK, WE ARE HERE. The Deep River Boys are shown on their arrival in New York on the Queen Mary from a record-breaking six-months tour of England and the British Isles. During their overseas stay the internationally famous singing group received some of the greatest acclaim ever accorded an American entertainment attraction. The 'Deeps' opened a two-week engagement at the Diana Lounge, Montreal, one of Canada's top night spots, on January 16. Shown here, left to right, are W.T. (Ed) Kirkeby, the group's personal manager, Vernon Gardner, Harry Douglass, Willie Lundy, Cameron Williams and Edward (Cubby) Ware.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0309
title: Beta Pi Sigma members model furs, Oct. 16, 1947, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of two women posing in furs. The photo was published in the California Eagle. On the back of the photo is the handwritten notation: "Beta Pi Sigma models."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0301
title: Carmen de Lavallade and Rene De Haven pose in publicity photo for Lester Horton Dance Theater, circa 1951, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of dancers Carmen de Lavallade, left, and Rene De Haven publicizing a performance of "Kathak." On the back of the photo is a typewritten caption with the following information: "Carmen de Lavallade and Rene De Haven strike exotic poses for their roles in 'Kathak,' streamlined Lester Horton version of authentic North Indian dance which will be premiered Mar. 31 at the Dance Theater in 'Choreo '51,' fourth successive season of modern ballets by Horton." Lester Horton, one of the founders of modern American dance, settled in Los Angeles in the late 1920s and later formed his own dance company, the Lester Horton Dance Theater.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0328
title: Eleven members of the New York 12 at their Smith Act Trial,  Foley Square, New York, 1949

description: Photograph of 11 members of the National Committee of the Communist Party of the United States during their Smith Act Trial: seated, from left, Robert Thompson, Henry Winston, Eugene Dennis, Gus Hall and John Williamson; standing, from left, Jack Stachel, Irving Potash, Carl Winter, Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., John Gates, and Gilbert Green. On July 20, 1948, a federal grand jury indicted 12 party members for conspiring to subvert the government. The indictment listed the acts of subversion as: organizing a political party dedicated to Marxism-Leninism; promoting Marxism-Leninism in publications; and establishing schools to teach the need to overthrow the government by force or violence. The "New York 12" were indicted under the Smith Act, which made it a crime to knowingly or willfully advocate the overthrow of any government in the U.S. by force or violence. The case of National Chairman William Z. Foster was severed from the trial, because Foster was seriously ill. The trial of the remaining 11 defendants began on Jan. 17, 1949, in the U.S. District Courthouse in Foley Square, New York City. At the conclusion of the nine-month trial, 10 defendants were fined $10,000 and sentenced to five years in prison. Robert G. Thompson was sentenced to only three years because he had received the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery during World War II. Defendants appealed their convictions, but the U.S. Supreme Court in 1951 upheld the trial court's decision.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0318
title: Lester Tate joins the Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress, January 1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Celia Rodriguez, left, and Shifra Meyers helping Lester Tate become the first person in 1950 to join the Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress (CRC). Rodriguez was financial secretary and Meyers was administrative secretary of CRC, an organization founded in 1946 to defend the rights of labor, African-Americans and other minorities. CRC successfully waged a national campaign to prevent Tate's extradition to Virginia. In 1941, Tate and four others were arrested and charged with the attempted robbery of a grocery store near Norfolk, Virginia. Tate was sentenced to a chain gang, but escaped in 1943 and moved to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, he changed his name from Albert Lindsay Gee to Lester Tate and became active in the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers union. In 1944, Tate was arrested in Los Angeles on a minor charge, and police learned he was wanted in Virginia on a fugitive warrant. The CRC, the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union and other supporters waged a campaign to prevent Tate's extradition, maintaining he would be mistreated in Virginia's prison system. Their efforts succeeded when California Gov. Earl Warren refused to sign extradition papers. Tate's supporters, including more than 600 trade union members and leaders, celebrated their victory at a dinner.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0306
title: Five people pose by an automobile, circa 1921/1930

description: Photograph of five people in long coats and hats posing in front of an automobile. The identity of the people, and the location of the photo, are not known.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0319
title: Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress welcomes a citizens jury to Los Angeles, March 12, 1952

description: Photograph of Marguerite Robinson, executive director of the Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress (CRC), shaking hands with a member of the San Francisco CRC Citizens Jury. Emil Freed, organizing secretary of the CRC and founder of the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, stands next to Robinson. The photo was taken when the jury visited Los Angeles to view the "Smith Act trials." Enacted in 1940, the Smith Act made it a crime to knowingly or willfully advocate the overthrow of any government in the United States by force or violence. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, citizens in Los Angeles, New York and many other cities throughout the United States were arrested and tried for allegedly violating the Act.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0311
title: Duke Ellington and his big band during a performance, circa 1941/1950

description: Pnotograph of composer and bandleader Duke Ellington at a microphone during a performance. Some of the members of Ellington's big band are behind him, standing or seated with their instruments.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0312
title: "Atomic Comics" perform at the Shangri-La Club, Oct. 9, 1947, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of entertainers McGee and McClure published in the California Eagle on Oct. 9, 1947. Part of the caption for the photograph read: "The Atomic Comics -- It's a laugh and a shout with a voot and a vout when the Shangri-La presents every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 308 pounds 'smiling' McGee and 'Big Tiny' McClure of stage, screen and radio fame."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0327
title: David Hyun and his family look at a globe, circa 1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of David Hyun, left, and his family: David Jr., standing next to globe; Freeland, sitting on the floor; and Hyun's wife, Mary. Hyun, a native of Korea, was one of four people whom U.S. Immigration Service officials sent to a Terminal Island detention center in 1949 to await deportation hearings. During the late 1940s, many aliens were arrested for violating the Alien Registration Act, requiring aliens living in the U.S. to register and be fingerprinted. The Act also allowed aliens to be deported for joining an organization that advocated overthrow of the government. The Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress, one of the group's that represented Hyun during deportation proceedings, claimed Hyun was considered a dangerous alien because of his political activities, such as organizing white collar workers in Hawaii to join the United Office and Profesional Workers of America. Hyun remained active in labor union work and other political activities when he and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1947. Two years later, he was sent to Terminal Island for deportation hearings. With help from the Los Angeles Civil Rights Congress and the Los Angeles Committee for Protection of the Foreign Born, Hyun eventually won his fight to remain in the United States.