| Title: |
Ben Margolis
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Labor History: Desegregating Unions during WWII
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| Description: |
Ben Margolis was a leading labor and civil liberties lawyer in California, starting in the mid-1930s. He began his practice in San Francisco and moved to Los Angeles in 1943, where he formed the firm of Katz, Gallagher and Margolis. He played a prominent role in the wartime anti-discrimination suits filed against the shipyards and the Jim Crow Boilermakers union.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
Margolis, Ben
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Lawyer
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Congress. House. Un-American Activities Committee
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| Historical events discussed: |
Sleepy Lagoon Trial, 1942-1943
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| Locations discussed: |
California; Los Angeles, CA; North America; San Francisco, CA; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Actions and defenses; Blacklisting of entertainers; California; Civil rights--United States; Labor laws and legislation; Lawyers; Liberty; Los Angeles, CA; North America; Oral history; San Francisco, CA; Sleepy Lagoon Trial, 1942-1943; U.S. Congress. House. Un-American Activities Committee; United States
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035159-38727
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