Emery Wesley Donahoo papers
Scope and Contents
Papers reflect Donahoo's undercover work for the Long Beach (California) Police Department to monitor activities of unions that were believed to have communist ties. Mostly contains typed minutes to meetings of an organization variously named the Long Beach Unemployment Council, Public Works and Unemployed Union, Workers Alliance Unemployed Union, and Workers Alliance of California. Minutes are not in chronological sequence, and are interspersed with fliers, circular letters, and a small photograph of Jacinto Cervantes LaPore. Also includes a photocopy of a letter by G. A. Wishon, a retiree of the Long Beach Police Department, dated 29 September 1955, certifying that Donahoo attended the union meetings at his request. Also includes a transcript of a tape-recorded statement made by Donahoo's daughter, Elizabeth Sokoloff, when she gave the papers to Brigham Young University in 1975.
Dates
- 1935-1937
Creator
- Donahoo, Emery Wesley (Person)
- Wishon, G. A. (Person)
- Sokoloff, Elizabeth Donahoo (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Extent
3 folders (0.3 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Sokoloff's 1975 statement was recorded by LeGrand Baker, a gifts librarian at BYU.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated; Elizabeth Sokoloff; 1975.
Appraisal
Western American business and labor history (20th century Western & Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.II, 2007).
- Title
- Register of Emery Wesley Donahoo papers
- Author
- Andrea Wyss
- Date
- 2011 April 20
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States