Announcing a
new exhibition in the Archives and Special Collections Department of the
University Library:
The
Rival Candidates: Electioneering and Politicians in California. The exhibition
will run from the conventions until the inauguration (August 2012-February
2013).
Featuring
materials from the Glenn Anderson Collection, the Juanita Millender-McDonald
Collection, the Glenn Dumke Collection and other archival collections, the Rival
Candidates focuses on national, state and local elections and politics
mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, but also materials from the 2000s.
The purpose of
the exhibition is to highlight the vast material the Archives holds on
elections and politics.
Also included
in the exhibition are newspaper headlines from major events involving
presidents, political conventions during the 1940s and 1950s, the strange saga
of cross-filing for primary elections in California, Juanita
Millender-McDonald’s career, early minority congressional candidates,
Presidential inaugurations, buttons, White House signing pens, campaign buttons
and even White House Easter Egg Hunt eggs.
The Archival
collection of Glenn Anderson features an endless array of materials from the
1930s to the 1990s. Anderson (1913-1994) was the mayor of Hawthorne before he
was thirty, a state assemblyman, co-founder of the State Democratic Council,
Lt. Governor for eight years during the Pat Brown administration, and
Congressman from the South Bay and Long Beach for 20 years. He helped
fund the 710 freeway and the 105 freeway is named for him. Juanita
Millender-McDonald (1938-2007) was a Congresswoman from the South Bay from
(1996-2007), a state legislator and Carson City Council member. Dr. Glenn
Dumke (1917-1989) was a history professor and dean at Occidental College,
President of San Francisco State College and Chancellor of the CSU System from
1962 to 1982. Dumke’s papers are part of the CSU System Archives which are
housed in the Archives at CSUDH.
Students,
faculty and staff are welcome to view the exhibition and do research
Monday-Friday 10-4 in the Archives on the South Side of the Library on the
Fifth Floor. For more information call 310 243-3895.
Faculty are
welcome to bring their classes to see the exhibition or for instruction on the
primary resources within the Archives.
AN ELECTORAL
QUIZ
While there
are many major topics and themes in the exhibition….there is also a good deal
of factual information scattered throughout the exhibition. Political junkies
may know most of the following questions, but the answers are found throughout the
exhibition.
Who was Alben
W. Barkley?
What Roosevelt
ran for Governor of California in 1950?
Who was Miss
Jane from the Beverly Hillbillies supporting for Lt. Governor in 1966?
Which U.S.
Presidents lived in Compton?
Why did
Congressman Richard Nixon run as a Democrat in the Democratic Primary in 1948?
Who was the
Congresswoman and movie star’s wife that gave Richard Nixon the nickname
“Tricky Dick?”
Where was John
F. Kennedy nominated as the Democratic Party’s Presidential Candidate in 1960?
What did Frank
Sinatra have to do with Glenn Anderson’s campaign for Lt. Governor in 1958.
What future
governor was Governor Brown fishing with in 1960?
What
California politicians were the Republican Party candidates for Vice President
in 1948, 1952 and 1956?
Who were
Democratic Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson’s running mates in 1952 and
1956?
What
California Governor became one of the most significant U.S. Supreme Court
justice of the 20th century? What future President was accused of
trying to impeach him? (Okay, the second question is not in the exhibition).
Who was
California’s favorite son for the 1948 and 1952 Republican conventions?
Who did the
Republicans like in 1952?
Want answers????
Come see the Exhibition….
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