United States--Race relations

The Cecil F. Poole papers contain a wide swath of personal and professional material from Poole’s earliest career in the U.S. Army Air Corps and the Price Administration to his appointment as Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The entire collection spans from 1935 until Poole’s death in 1997 and primarily consists of correspondence, memoranda, case files, personnel files, newspaper and magazine clippings, speeches, photographs, date books and personal ephemera.

Nine items of printed material, including press releases and open letters, created for distribution by several Oakland, California, groups in support of Ruchell Magee and other Black people incarcerated for political reasons.