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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 …

In a 1986 letter written to Dymally, Yoshimura, (West Regional Conference in Solidarity with the Struggling Peoples of Southern Africa,) thanks the Senator for his endorsement of their anti-apartheid platform and invites Dymally to be a panelist for…

Incarcerated persons, write to Senator Mervyn Dymally, asking him to take action and investigate the "funny death," of Fred Billingsley caused by correctional officers, and unprofessional practices of correctional officers across the state. The…

The Chairman of the California State Advisory Committee, Herman Sillas Jr. invites Mervyn Dymally to a public open meeting at the California State Capitol. The purpose of the meeting was to issue a report pertaining to the lack of political…

Linda H. Bauer wrote to Senator Mervyn Dymally regarding the hunger crisis that occurred in Africa, from 1983 through 1985, Ethiopia Famine was one of the worst events to ever occur because of chronic drought. Bauer asked Senator Dymally and other…

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…

President Reagan's assistant is thanking Dymally for the letter he has sent on November 5 about the issue of the Soviet Jewry for the upcoming meetings with General Secretary Gorbachev. The letters discuss that the letter Dymally sent to Reagan will…

In a letter writen by the president of the Berkeley chapter of the National Organization of Women, Marijean Suelze thanks Dymally for writing two letters to the Department of Sociology, and states that the student organizaiton has supported the…

In a letter written by a British couple to Dymally, they request information about the trials of the Soledad Brother and Angela Davis. They ask what can be done, and lament on the racial discrimination and persecution against African Americans. They…

In this letter, Dymally replies to the concerns of a constituent, who is a medical doctor, about welfare recipients who discriminate in their choice of doctors. Dymally asserts that many black people, after lifetimes of constant rejection by racists,…