Several people subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee and other similar bodies gave their personal libraries to Freed.
It moved in 1973 (52 years ago) (1973) to its present location in South-Central Los Angeles.
[2] Holdings include collections documenting the history of resistance and civil rights, such as the Asociacion de Vendedores Ambulantes (Street Vendors Association) Records; Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles Photograph Collection; and the Los Angeles Teachers Union Collection.
[6] The current library director is Yusef Omowale, the 2019 UCLA Activist-in-Residence at the Institute on Inequality and Democracy.
[7] He is focused in particular on building a collection that documents dispossession and displacement in Los Angeles.