| Creator: |
Axelrod, Beverly
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| Date(s): |
1935-2009 |
| Bulk Dates: |
1953-2003 |
| Call Number: |
MSS 0884 |
| Language: |
Materials predominantly in
English. There is one folder with materials in
Italian.
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| Abstract: |
Beverly Axelrod was a San Francisco-based lawyer heavily involved in civil rights and social justice movements and organizations
in the 1950s and 1960s, both as an attorney and as an activist. Her papers consist of correspondence, legal files, organization
documentation, activist literature, and other material relating to her life and career. A large portion of the collection
documents Axelrod's relationship with writer and activist Eldridge Cleaver.
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| Physical Description: |
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15.83 linear feet
(17 boxes)
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2 VHS tapes
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0.059 gigabytes
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2 oversize boxes
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition: |
Purchase, 2010 |
| Processing Information: |
Processed and encoded by Shelby Daniels-Young, September 2019-February 2020. Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard |