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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 …

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…

This letter from Bill Richardson who joins the Black Caucus members in solidarity to discuss a call-to-action for a Reagan appointee, Marianne Mele Hall to resign from their appointed position to the Copyright Royalty Tribunal. This letter implies…

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…

Dymally replies to Raul Soria about his position on reducing the flow of illegal aliens and immigrants into the U.S. Dymally writes that Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 for the purpose of controlling the entrance of…

During the Gulf War (Aug 2, 1990 – Feb 28, 1991) hate crimes against Arab Americans increased, and the FBI questioned Arab Americans. This resolution put forth by Dymally in 1991 sought to curb baseless interrogation by the FBI, while increasing…

In this letter from Mervyn Dymally to a border patrol agent, he expresses concerns about being stopped for identification as he is a US citizen, and at the racial profiling that he encountered at the border. Dymally closes by stating that the…

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…

Dymally thanks Ms. Bucel for writing a letter to him regarding his legislation about discrimination against women in education. Dymally shares copies of the bills he has presented and signed into law concerning day care centers and discriminating…

Dymanlly invites Ruth G. Tulley to answer a few questions regarding the history and present status of women lawyers and law students.