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Descriptive Summary
Title:
Miriam Sherman - Brooks Family Papers,
1910-1978
Collection number:
MSS 63
Creator:
Miriam Brooks Sherman
Extent:
1/6th Linear foot,
1/2 legal box
Repository:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Los Angeles, CA 90044
Abstract:
The collection is comprised of the personal correspondence among Isador and Bessie Brooks; their three daughters: Miriam, Eleanor and Dorothy; Isador's father Joseph; and Miriam's daughter, during the first half of the 20th century. Isador and Miriam were Communist Party members. There are additional papers which include: Isador's 1929 reports to the Los Angeles Communist Party; Miriam's notebook of a 1932 trip to the USSR as a youth delegate from the International Labor Defense to the World Congress of the International Red Aid; a memo dealing with the "Los Angeles Ten" case, in which Miriam was a defendant for refusing to answer questions before a grand jury regarding her connections to the Communist Party; and clippings about Miriam's firing from a pianist position at UCLA's Physical Education Department in 1950 during the University of California's loyalty oath controversy.
Language:
English.
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