Wilkinson, Frank, 1914-2006
Biography:
Administrator with the Los Angeles Public Housing Authority responsible for recommending sites for the post-World War II public housing program. In this capacity, he recommended and the City Council and Housing Authority apporved sites outside the barrios or ghettos of Los Angeles. The placement of these sites was characterized as "creeping socialism" by those opposed. Wilkinson's personal affiliations became an issue, and his life as a target of government harassment and scrutiny began. -- Loyola Law Review
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection (Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research)
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Letter: Los Angeles, California, to Carl and Anne Braden, Louisville, Kentucky, 1959 July 21 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: Los Angeles, California, to James Dombrowski, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1963 August 21 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: Los Angeles, California, to James Dombrowski, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1963 June 4 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: to officers of National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1963 May 27 (Letters (correspondence))
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission image of a newspaper article entitled, "Many Ask Braden's Freedom" that appeared in the Southern Patriot, Nashville, Tennessee, 1960s (Newspapers)