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  • "Agreement By and Between State of California, State Department of Social Welfare, and Federal Security Agency, Social Security Board"

    Summary of agreement for the Department of Social Welfare to assist in performance of duties and for reimbursement of costs by the Federal Security Agency

    Date: Undated

  • "Policies and Procedures Governing the Administration of Services and Assistance to Enemy Aliens Affected by Governmental Action: A Handbook for State Agencies

    Handbook prepared by the Bureau of Public Assistance

    Date: June 1942

  • Memo on Fear of Deportation

    Office Memorandum from Alice B. Guess to Bertha S. Underhill regarding assistance and deportation; for response, see Correspondence on Fear of Deportation (F3729_109_001a)

    Date: March 30, 1945

  • Correspondence Mixed Marriage Case, Lee

    Correspondence from Martha A. Chickering to Richard H. Neustadt regarding exemption from incarceration in mixed marriage cases; See F3729_86_002 and F3729_86_003

    Date: February 11, 1943

  • Case No. 3091, Ellen R. Van Valkenburg v. Albert Brown, Brief of Respondent

    A Brief of Respondent is filed in the appellate court by the party who won in the previous trial and defends the lower court’s original decision. Ellen Van Valkenburg began an important legal battle for women’s enfranchisement in California on July 21, 1871, when she requested that Santa Cruz County Clerk Albert Brown enter her name in the Great Register of voters. After Brown (a willing accomplice in helping her bring the case to court) refused to register her, Van Valkenburg and her lawyer, Santa Cruz Judge Albert Hagan, began legal proceedings by requesting a writ of mandamus, a judicial remedy used to compel agencies to perform ministerial acts, such as registering voters. Van Valkenburg and Hagan argued her case by citing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The new amendment, ratified 3 years earlier in 1868, defined all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. as citizens protected by civil rights. Van Valkenburg and Hagan asserted that American women were considered citizens under this amendment, and that citizenship automatically granted absolute rights, including the right to vote. The case first went to California’s Third District Court. Many of America’s most prominent suffragists, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, were with Van Valkenburg in Santa Cruz when the lower court ruled against her on August 16, 1871. Van Valkenburg and Hagan swiftly appealed this decision through the Supreme Court of California. In the end, the Supreme Court of California upheld the lower court’s verdict under the reasoning that as a white American woman, Van Valkenburg already had citizenship and civil rights prior to the passage of the 14th amendment, and that the 14th amendment did not provide her with any additional political rights, such as the right to vote. While Van Valkenburg lost her case, and subsequent lawsuits failed to secure women's suffrage nationwide, the case stands as a critical early example of legal advocacy for women's political rights in California.

    Date: October 2, 1871

  • Memo on Number of Cases

    Office Memorandum from Bernice G. Copland to Margaret S. Watkins and Lois Craig regarding report on operations in Los Angeles County

    Date: April 27, 1942

  • Photo 034

    Crowd gathered to await transportation

    Date: Undated

  • Telegram from Georgia Governor Goodwin Knight complaining about the use of federal troops to enforce integration of Little Rock Central High School, page 2

    This item has no description.

    Date: 1957

  • McCarthy Album 06, Photograph 217

    Caption: "California Street looking to the Ferry," 1906. A view of the destruction along California street after the earthquake and fire.

    Date: 1906

  • Correspondence on Exclusion

    Correspondence from H. C. Pratt to Earl Warren regarding the termination of exclusion of certain individuals from the West Coast Exclusion Zone

    Date: September 4, 1945