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Dymally wrote a letter to President Ford asking him to grant a full and unconditional presidential pardon to Iva Toguri d'Aquino. Ms. Toguri was a Japanese-American DJ who was convicted on one count of treason and lost her citizenship for allegedly…

In a 21 July 1970 letter, the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee confirmed that Senator Dymally would attend an housewarming for the committee.

This letter written to Senator Mervyn Dymally by United Farm Workers Union Cofounder Dolores Huerta on the fourth of March in 1971, asks about his interest in meeting with the Casa De Fruta workers. Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta from …

Letter from Allan Jarabin, Chairman and Rozella Hall, Co-Chair of the People’s Legislative Coalition to Mervyn M. Dymally in 1973. The letter is in response to the Social Security Amendments of 1972 to protect the financial, medical, and social…

Mervyn M. Dymally sends a telegram to Louis Martin, Deputy Director of the Democratic National Committee in protest of President Lyndon B. Johnson's lack of people of color in his delegation, more specifically, "Negros and Mexican Americans". In…

Letter from Parren J. Mitchell Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus to Dymally. Mitchell is letting Dymaly know that the President has released an Administration plan for equal employment opportunities. He tells Dymally that they cannot stop…

As a California State Assemblyman, Dymally introduced legislation to mandate the inclusion of Black history in California textbooks. The legislation was later expanded to include the history of other people from races and ethnicities. The fight for…

In this typed letter from an incarcerated person in the Chino prison facility, the author states that he was tried on seven counts and found guilty on three accounts. He indicated that the count he was convicted on was not relative to his case. He…

In a letter to Dymally, an incarcerated person writes that he was encouraged to contact Dymally after reading about his work in higher education in a publication made available within the prison. He asks about obtaining a higher education in order to…

In a 30 November 1973 letter, the author states that he is writing to Dymally to inform him about what is going on in Watts, CA, and the harassment of the Black and Latino community by the LASD and Highway Patrol. The author says that law enforcement…