Emil Freed

Emil Freed (June 25, 1901 - December 4, 1982) was a political activist and founder of the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, an archive in Los Angeles. ). In 1923, he received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.

He ran for the United States House of Representatives on the Communist ticket in 1940.

At the founding of the Civil Rights Congress in 1946, he served as organization secretary in Los Angeles.

In 1953, Lucille Ball was questioned before the Committee on Un-American Activities about her support of Freed's candidacy in 1940. She denied knowing anything about it.

During the 1960s, he continued his activism, speaking on the 1968 presidential election, the War on Poverty, the U.S. economy, and U.S. policies on Czechoslovakia, labor, and the Vietnam War. The library contains books, pamphlets, films, tapes and individual and organizational papers on progressive, labor and social movements.

Personal and death Freed married Tatiana Tassia Hirsh (born in Russia on September 7, 1905) in December 1926.

Freed died in December 1982.

In 1983, Tassia Freed moved to Laguna Hills, California, where she died in April 1987.