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Timeline of History (detail):
The Split of ONE, Incorporated
1963–1970
Significant Events in the history of the Los Angeles–based
movement for homosexual rights
1964
The Institute for the Study of Human Resources (ISHR) founded by Don Slater, Antonio Sanchez, and W. Dorr Legg.
Manuel Boyfrank’s letter to Don Slater dated Aug. 15, 1964
R. H. Stuart’s letter to Chairman Joe Aaron requesting a Corporate Meeting, dated Sept. 9, 1964
Don Slater’s account of the 1964, 1965 Elections at ONE Incorporated
1965
April 14 [Wed]: Ross Ingersoll, known as “Marcel Martin,” resigns as Associate Editor of ONE Magazine. Ingersoll had served as an editor since the resignation of Jim Kepner in November of 1960.
April 15 [Thu]: Don Slater signs a lease for office space on Cahuenga Blvd. in Universal City
April 18 [Sun]: ONE, Incorporated divides. Don Slater, “Antonio Sanchez,” and Billy Glover move ONE’s library and office from Venice to Cahuenga Blvd. “for the protection of the property of the corporation.” They soon began calling themselves The Tangent Group, after a regular column in ONE Magazine usually written by Jim Kepner, and maintained that they were indeed “the majority of legally elected board members of ONE.” Kepner and others dubbed the event “the heist,” but Slater refers to the event as a mutiny.
April 20: Jim Schneider’s letter to Don Slater expressing concern over the recent split of ONE Incorporated
April 21: Jim Schneider sends a letter to ONE Inc. members calling for an informal meeting in his home and demanding the resignation or reconciliation of W. Dorr Legg and Don Slater.
April 23: Joe Aaron resigns from ONE, Inc. in part due to work conflicts and part due to “the present corporate dillema.”
Dorr Legg’s letter dismissing Don Slater from “any and all appointments to any post whatsoever in ONE, Incorporated” dated April 23.
May 11: Don Slater sends a Letter to “Former Friends and Subscribers” of ONE Magazine, announcing ONE Inc.’s move from Venice to Cahuenga Blvd., in Hollywood and asking for help and “moral support.”huenga Blvd.
May 12: Jim Schneider sends a letter to Don Slater.
May 18: Manuel Boyfrank’s letter to Jim Schneider advising him that ONE's board of directors had removed him from membership in the corporation.
Aug. 18: Don Slater’s letter to attorney Ed Raiden asking for his help in retrieving ONE's property and files from the Sheriff.
1967
April 25: Agreement of Settlement
May 11: Proposed letter announcing the Agreement of Settlement.
ONE Inc.’s May 1967 Letter to “Friends of ONE,” as printed in ONE Confidential Vol. XII No. 5
Aug. 15: Don Slater’s letter to Ed Raiden, declaring compliance with the agreement and outrage over ONE’s declaration of victory in the ONE Confidential (above).
Encounter with ONE Institute & Archives
This time line was created by C. Todd White from information gathered while researching his Doctoral dissertation. Dr. G. Alexander Moore is director of White's dissertation committee in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California.
Posted by C. Todd White • This page was last updated on
3/29/04
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