Author, manager of the Pasadena news bureau, and editor for the Los Angeles Times. Founder of the Brentwood, New York Bulletin, and the Walt Whitman Quarterly.
Dean of the UCLA School of Medicine and UCLA vice-chancellor of health services. Chief of the Medical Section of the Manhattan Engineering District. Chief of the Radiological Safety Section of the Joint Task Force for Operation Crossroads.
Dean of the UCLA College of Letters and Science and UCLA professor of economics. Director of the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations and chair of the President's Emergency Railway Labor Board.
Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, co-founder of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and executive director of the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony Society. Co-founder of UCLA’s educational outreach program Design for Sharing and staff member at the UCLA Center for Performing Arts.
Member of the Socialist Party and active in the Populist movement. Reporter for the Los Angeles Record, editor of EPIC News, and a commissioner on the Los Angeles Board of Public Works.
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
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Painter and educator at the Jepson Art Institute and UC, Santa Barabara.
This series includes interviews with prominent Los Angeles-based visual artists and other members of the art establishment whose careers span the period from the 1920s through the 1970s. It documents the art community of the pre-World War II period and the rise of Los Angeles as a nationally rec...
Secretary for Katherine Duer Mackay, founder of the Equal Franchise Society, a woman’s suffrage organization. Wife of Harry Hopkins, member of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration.
California State College, Los Angeles professor of history. The first black graduate of the University of Oregon and the first black individual to receive a doctorate from Ohio State University.
President of Paramount Pictures and founder of the W. W. Hodkinson Corporation. Founder of the airplane manufacturing businesses Hodkinson Aviation Corporation and Central American Aviation Corporation/Companía Nacional de Aviación.
Civil rights activist and president of branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Louisiana and Los Angeles.
Actor, producer, and activist. Co-founder of the Art Against Apartheid Movement, the Negro Arts Theatre, and the Los Angeles Paul Robeson Community Center.
Dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Founder of the Lewitzky Dance Company. Founding dean of the dance program at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
Senior officer in the United States Army involved in military intelligence. Founder of the Washington Institute of Technology, a research group specializing in radio aids to aerial navigation.