This series focuses on organizations that Treuhaft worked in or for was a leader in. Their broad range reflect the broad range of his interests and involvement in public and professional life and politics, from the Civil Rights Congress (racial discrimination and the Communist Party), to the National Lawyers Guild (professional legal and social issues), to the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (international human rights) and the Consumers Co-Operative of Berkeley (community service) to his appointment to the California State Board of Funeral Directors and Embalmers (a direct result of his research for and association with Mitford's expose of the funeral industry in The American Way of Death).
