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Chavez and Dymally worked closely on several political actions that addressed labor rights of farm-workers.

Beginning in 1953, Dymally taught in the elementary schools in Los Angeles.

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 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…

On February 22nd, 1990, the author sent this letter to Congressman Dymally and the Watch Commander of Compton Police to call attention to a recent event involving her daughter. As the letter states, “[her daughter] was attempting to drop her…

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…

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 letter to Dymally, Arthur S. Takei mentions that Dymally has been endorsed for the June 7th Democratic Primary Election by the Japanese American Democratic Association of California. Takei mentions that Dymally's endorsement was based on…

In a letter written by the Black Medical Students of UCLA to Senator Dymally, they express their concern over the under representation of Blacks and Latinos in the UCLA School of Medicine; as Blacks and Latinos only represent 2% in the program. On 9…

In a letter written to Mervyn Dymally, former WWI and WII veteran Chet Schwarzkopf used racist language to refer to Blacks as "beast," and "idiot whites," who were "rioting." Schwarzkopf included a lengthy passage from a Rudyard Kipling [MacDonough…