speaking on the 1968 presidential election, War on Poverty, U.S. economy, and U.S. policies on Czechoslovakia, labor, and the Vietnam War. In 1981, he received a certificate of merit from the CPUSA in honor of more than 50 years of service. Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research During the McCarthy era, Freed collected pamphlets, films, papers and other documents that people were disposing of to distance themselves from Communist involvement. He began by storing the works in a garage. In 1963, he founded of the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research at the intersection of La Brea Avenue and Olympic Boulevard in the Pico-Robertson area of Los Angeles. In 1965, following the Watts riots, he began renting space in a building at 6120 South Vermont Avenue in South Los Angeles; in 1971, he bought the building. 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. References External links The Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, Los Angeles Online Archive of California: Register of the Emil and Tassia Freed Papers, 1915-1987 Members of the Communist Party USA American archivists 1901 births 1982 deaths USC Viterbi School of Engineering alumni