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DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0211
title: Maria Madrigal, Jefferson High School student, wins the Home Economics Award, Jan. 26, 1951, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Maria Madrigal, left, receiving the Home Economics Award from Henry O'Dyck, boys vice-principal at Jefferson High School. Madrigal received the award for her outstanding work in the school's home economics department. The award was presented during graduation exercises at the high school campus.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0207
title: Member of LAPD Deputy Auxiliary Police basketball team with trophy, circa 1946, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of young man holding a trophy he has won. The young man appears to be a member of the champion Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Deputy Auxiliary Police (DAP) Boys Basketball team. He wears a jacket with the initials "DAP" sewn on it. In the background are two banners with the words "LAPD Deputy Auxiliary Police Boys Basketball Junior Champions 1946" and "LAPD Deputy Auxiliary Police Boys Touch Football Midget Champions 1945." Several trophies are atop two file cabinets to the right of the photograph.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0214
title: Group of African-Americans at organization meeting, circa 1931/1940, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of African-American women gathered for what appears to be an organizational meeting. The women are formally dressed; many are wearing corsages. The tall woman in the black jacket, standing fifth from the left, is Pauline Slater, one of the first African-American elementary school teachers in Los Angeles. The woman on the far right is Jennie Bruington, who moved to Los Angeles from Kansas with her husband, James, in 1887. Their daughter, Bessie Bruington Brooks, was a Los Angeles teacher who in 1939 became the city's first African-American principal. The identity of the other women is not known. A flag with the name of the organization is in the center of the photograph; the writing on the flag is partially hidden, but the words "Col. James M. ., Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 29, 1936" are visible. A man in a police uniform stands third from the right, next to an American flag; another man in a suit and tie stands on the other side of the flag.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0217
title: Fay M. Jackson, July 1931, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Fay M. Jackson, one of Los Angeles' poineer women journalists who worked in the city from 1928 until 1942. Jackson was drama, political, society and Sunday editor of the California Eagle and later the West Coast director of Associated Negro Press. She was also the first African-American journalist to serve as a foreign correspondant. Jackson sent this portrait to her boss, Eagle publisher Charlotta Bass, with the handwritten message "With affection and admiration to Mrs. Bass, July '31."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0199
title: Elbert Hudson in his Air Force uniform, Mar. 3, 1944, Tuskegee Air Flight School, Tuskegee, Alabama

description: Official U.S. Army Air Forces photograph of Elbert Hudson in uniform. Hudson, a native of Los Angeles, trained at the Tuskegee, Alabama flight school and was a combat fighter pilot in World War II. Hudson later practiced law in Los Angeles. From 1972-1992 he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Broadway Federal Bank, a bank organized in 1947 to serve the African-American community. He currently is chairman of the bank's Board of Directors.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0198
title: Leo Gallagher, circa 1941/1950, San Francisco

description: Photograph of Leo Gallagher, a Los Angeles attorney who specialized in labor law, and was known throughout his nearly 40-year practice for the defense of the rights of labor unionists, minorities and the poor. He defended people's rights to free speech and assembly, and was associated with the active defense of Communist Party members and sympathizers in the U.S. and abroad during the length of his law practice, beginning in the mid-1920s in California. In 1925 he began his association with the International Labor Defense (ILD), the U.S. branch of the International Red Aid which was dedicated to the active defense of political and labor activists. He was a charter member of the National Lawyers Guild and a sponsor of the Civil Rights Congress after the ILD merged with the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties to form this organization. In 1932 Gallagher was forced to resign his faculty position at Southwestern University Law School for his defense of the "Mooney Runners", students who staged a protest at an event during the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. In 1933 he successfully defended Tom Mooney, a San Francisco labor unionist, and in August 1933 he was part of the ILD delegation sent to Nazi Germany to assist in the legal defense of communist George Dimitroff, charged with the arson fire that destroyed the Reichstag building. Gallagher was also active in the Democratic Party, running on their ticket many times in California state primaries. Though he was never elected to office, he used his campaigns as a platform to advocate progressive programs and ideas.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0213
title: PFC Johnnie "Tico" Stinson plays baseball, circa 1941/1945

description: Photograph of Private First Class Johnnie "Tico" Stinson as he gets ready to catch a ball during a baseball game. This photo was taken by the U.S. Army and sent to the California Eagle; the Eagle published it in its sports section. The date and place of the photograph are unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0202
title: Labor leaders prepare to testify at a U.S. Senate hearing regarding the Fair Employment Practices Committee, June 20, 1947, Washington, D.C.

description: Photograph of three labor leaders outside the Senate Labor Room during hearings regarding Senate Bill 984, a measure to create a permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC). The three are, from left, James H. Anderson, chairman, contact committee, Los Angeles Chapter, National Council for a permanent FEPC; William Green, international president, AFL; Robert Gilbert, co-chairman executive board, Los Angeles Chapter, National Council for a Permanent FEPC. Pres. Franklin Roosevelt created the FEPC in 1941, authorizing the committee to create the fullest employment of all availabile persons and eliminate employment discrimination. After WWII, Pres. Harry Truman wanted to maintain a permanent peace-time FEPC, but the U.S. Senate terminated the committee in 1946.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0203
title: Women's Division of Mobilization for Democracy plans a reception, circa 1945, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of three members of the Women's Division of Mobilization for Democracy planning a reception for Rep. Hugh De Lacy, U.S. Congressman from Seattle from 1945-47. Left to right are Mrs. Julian Sieroty, chairman of the Women's Division, Mrs. Herman J. Stern and Mrs. Benjamin Solnit.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0208
title: Group of citizens met with Mayor Fletcher Bowron, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of group of citizens meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron. Bowron, who sits in the chair on the left, was mayor from 1938 until 1953.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0195
title: William "Bill" Taylor, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of William "Bill" Taylor, a veteran social activist. Taylor was a member of the Communist Party since the 1920s, helping to organize the party in Washington, D.C. In 1949, he came to Los Angeles to head the party's Los Angeles County Negro Commission. He later chaired the Communist Party of Los Angeles.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0200
title: Pettis Perry and his son, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Pettis Perry holding his son. Perry joined the Communist Party in 1930, and later served as chairman of the Los Angeles County organization. In 1940, he ran unsuccessfully on the Communist Party ticket for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the late 1940s, Perry was one of the national leaders of the party.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0192
title: Mr. Robinson and his engineering plant shop group, circa 1950, Prague

description: Photograph of Mr. Robinson, center, first row, and workers at an engineering plant in Prague. The back of the photograph contains the handwritten message: "Our shop group in the great engineering plant called Cesko morovsko kolben danek." The photo was collected by Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, when she visited Prague in 1950 and learned about African-Americans living there.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0219
title: Emma Lue Sayers, circa 1931/1940, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Emma Lue Sayers. Sayers gave this portrait to Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, with the handwritten message, "Sincerely Emma Lue."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0201
title: Pettis Perry's children playing at home, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Pettis Perry's sons playing in their Los Angeles home. A photograph of their father is on top of the fireplace. Perry was a leader in both the Communist Party of Los Angeles and the national party organization. In 1940, he ran unsuccessfully on the Communist Party ticket for the U.S. House of Representatives.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0218
title: Leo Branton Jr., circa 1951, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Leo Branton Jr., a prominent civil rights and entertainment attorney. Working with lawyer Ben Margolis, Branton in the 1950s defended members of the Communist Party who were accused of advocating the overthrow of the government. He later represented 13 members of the Black Panther Party who maintained they were unlawfully attacked by the Los Angeles Police Department. Branton defended Angela Davis during her 1975 trial for murder, kidnapping and conspiracy; Davis was acquitted of all charges. Branton's entertainment clients included Nat King Cole and Dorothy Dandridge.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0212
title: Jefferson High School students write a story for the school newspaper, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of two Jefferson High School students writing a story for the school newspaper. The young man on the left sits in front of a typewriter, writing a story, while the young man on the right looks at the story the other student has written. A page of a newspaper sports section is on the desk in the center of the photograph; a large dictionary is on the right of the desk.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0194
title: The Laws Family await their trial, circa 1945, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of the Laws Family, waiting at the door of a court room for their housing discrimination trial. Left to right: Anton Fears, son-in law; Pauletta Fears, daughter and wife of Anton; Anna Laws; Henry Laws. The Laws family fought, and eventually won, a lengthy legal battle to remain in the home they owned at 1235 E. 92nd Street in Los Angeles. In 1942, the family was told that African-Americans were barred from living in the neighborhood and were ordered to move. But the Laws refused to leave and waited as the issue was argued in various courts. Eventually, Pauletta and her parents were sent to jail for disobeying a court order requiring them to vacate their home. But they were able to remain in their home after the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3, 1948, ruled that racially restrictive covenants were unenforceable. The Laws' case, commonly called the "92nd Street Outrage," was one of the most publicized examples of the evils of restrictive covenants, which barred African-Americans and other minorities from buying or renting homes.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0191
title: Mr. Robinson walks across the Karlovy Bridge, circa 1950, Prague

description: Photograph of Mr. Robinson walking across the Karlovy Bridge in Prague. The photo was collected by Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California, when she visited Prague in 1950 and learned about African-Americans living there. The back of the photograph contains the following handwritten note: "Karlovy Bridge oldest all-stone bridge in the world. Prague capital in the background."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0220
title: Ernestine Jones holds a camera, circa 1921/1930

description: Postcard with photograph of Ernestine Jones, holding a camera. The back of the postcard contains the following handwritten message: "Ernestine Jones, age 13 years, 11 months."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0209
title: James Roosevelt joins VFW Post 904, March 20, 1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of African-American veterans congratulating James Roosevelt, center, for joining Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post No. 904. The four veterans, members of VFW Frank Ernest Post #2124, are, from left, Eric Tate, Post Commander Frank O. Ocause, Joseph Prince and George Anderson. Roosevelt was the son of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0205
title: Children promote religious and racial tolerance, circa 1941-1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of school children, representing a variety of ethnic and religious groups, raising the American flag to promote religious and racial tolerance. The boy on the right holds a sign with a painting of white and African-American children, and the words "America's future. Teach our children to be Americans in the highest, fullest meaning of the word -- free from every racial and religious prejudice -- BY SETTING THE EXAMPLE YOURSELF!"
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0196
title: William "Bill" Taylor, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of William "Bill" Taylor, a veteran social activist. Taylor was a member of the Communist Party since the 1920s, helping to organize the party in Washington, D.C. In 1949, he came to Los Angeles to head the party's Los Angeles County Negro Commission. He later chaired the Communist Party of Los Angeles.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0223
title: Charlotta Bass and other citizens meet with officers at Newton Division police station, July 5, 1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, and a group of citizens conducting a meeting at the Newton Division police station. Bass stands in the background, second from left, and is speaking to the group. The California Eagle consistently pursued and publicized cases of suspected police brutality and abuse.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0216
title: African-American community leaders at meeting, circa 1931/1940, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of men sitting around a conference table where they appear to be holding a meeting. Participants include Rev. Clayton Russell, who is seated on the left hand side of the table, in the center, and is holding up one of his hands. Russell, a civil rights activist, headed the People's Independent Church of Christ. The young man at the end of the table, with his hat in front of him, is John Kinloch, managing editor of the California Eagle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0204
title: Women's Division of Mobilization for Democracy plans a reception, circa 1945, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of three members of the Women's Division of Mobilization for Democracy planning a reception for Rep. Hugh De Lacy, U.S. Congressman from Seattle from 1945-47. Left to right are Mrs. Herman J. Stern; Mrs. Julian Sieroty, chairman of the Women's Division; and Mrs. Benajmin Solnit. The reception was held at the home of John T. McTernan, a civil rights and labor attorney.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0222
title: Satchell Morris in university gown, circa 1931/1940

description: Photograph of Satchell Morris, wearing a university gown and a pair of glasses with a long string attached to them.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0221
title: Lillian, Feb. 10, 1925

description: Sepia-toned photograph of Lillian, dated Feb. 10, 1925. Lillian wears a cloche hat and pearls and red lipstick. The photograph was presented to Charlotta Bass, with the handwritten message: "To the sweetest mother on earth, from your daughter, Lillian." Although Bass and her husband did not have any children, young people she knew sent her letters and photographs in which they addressed her as "Mother."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0206
title: Member of LAPD Deputy Auxiliary Police football team with trophy, circa 1946, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of young man holding a trophy he has won. The young man appears to be a member of the champion Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Deputy Auxiliary Police (DAP) Boys Touch Football Midget team. He wears a jacket with the initials "DAP" sewn on it. In the background are two banners with the words "LAPD Deputy Auxiliary Police Boys Basketball Junior Champions 1946" and "LAPD Deputy Auxiliary Police Boys Touch Football Midget Champions 1945." Several trophies sit atop two file cabinets to the right of the photograph, including the trophy the young man is holding.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0197
title: William "Bill" Taylor, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of William "Bill" Taylor, a veteran social activist. Taylor was a member of the Communist Party since the 1920s, helping to organize the party in Washington, D.C. In 1949, he came to Los Angeles to head the party's Los Angeles County Negro Commission. He later chaired the Communist Party of Los Angeles.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0390
title: Picket line during Phelps-Dodge strike, circa 1946/1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Bill Duke, the man in the center wearing a hat, and Rito Valencia, right, talking with an unidentified man during a strike at Phelps-Dodge Cooper Products in Los Angeles. The men are members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0374
title: Harvill Corporation advertises for help during a strike, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of some of the buildings at Harvill Corporation, a die casting company located at 6251 W. Century Boulevard in Los Angeles. Members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700, struck the company on Jan. 28, 1948 in a dispute over wages and benefits. Harvill placed the "Help Wanted" signs at its plant to seek replacements for the strikers. The company also urged members of other unions to dishonor the strike by placing a sign on its building with the following message: "Attention! Teamsters & Others. This strike was called by Mine, Mill & Smelter, the outfit that was kicked out of the C.I.O. It is an honor to cross this picket line." The strike lasted three days, and ended on Feb. 2, after Harvill agreed to the union's demand for a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and the addition of Memorial Day as a paid holiday.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0377
title: Strikers picket at Harvill Corporations, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of strikers picketing the Harvill Corporation, located at 6251 W. Century Boulevard in Los Angeles. The strikers were members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700. Union members who worked at Harvill and three other die casting plants demanded a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and an additional paid holiday. After company officials failed to make an alternative salary offer, union members struck the four companies on Jan. 28, 1948. Company officials eventually agreed to the union's proposed salary hike and added Memorial Day to their list of paid holidays. Union members accepted the companies' offer on Feb. 2, ending the three-day strike.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0402
title: Father and son at food and fund depot during Chrysler strike, circa 1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a father and his son looking at some of the food and other donations that have been collected during a strike at the Chrysler factory. The United Auto Workers, Local 230, struck Chrysler in the late 1940s. The union set up a network of "Food and Fund Depots" where people could drop off donations of food and money for strikers. One of the depots was located at the California Eagle offices on Central Avenue. Local 230 appealed to other unions to make donations, as evidenced in the sign which reads "It's our turn now. It may be yours next. Give."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0398
title: Ken Eckert on the C.B.S. picket line, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Ken Eckert, wearing a Native American headdress, makeup and costume, on the picket line during a strike at C.B.S. Broadcasting. Other picketers carry signs saying they are members of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Local 1421. Eckert's sign reads "C.B.S. Profits Soar. They Can Pay Us a Living Wage."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0383
title: Headquarters of International Union of Mine Mill & Smelter Workers, Local 700, circa 1957, 3823 E. Gage Ave., Bell

description: Photograph of union headquarters for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700, at 3823 E. Gage Avenue in Bell. The union for many years was based at 5851 Avalon Boulevard in Los Angeles, home base for the California Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and several CIO-affiliated labor unions. The Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers moved their headquarters to Bell sometime in the late 1950s and remained at that facility until the early 1960s.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0397
title: United Electrical Workers picket during strike, circa 1946, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of two members of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, Local 1421 picketing during a strike at an unidentified company. The picket signs read "This company has a good profit margin. As its employees we ask only for a proper share of (word illegible) profits and an agreement that will give us security, decent and safe working conditions, and allow us to maintain some humanity as humans."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0399
title: Interracial group of mine, mill and smelter workers, circa 1946, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700 posing outside a Los Angeles plant. Jack Marcotti, right, was one of the local union organizers.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0373
title: Strikers picket at Harvill Corporation, Jan. 29, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of strikers picketing the Harvill Corporation, located at 6251 W. Century Boulevard in Los Angeles. The strikers were members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700. Union members who worked at Harvill and three other die casting plants demanded a seven-and-one-half-cent per hour wage hike and an additional paid holiday. After company officials failed to make an alternative salary offer, union members struck the four companies on Jan. 28, 1948. Company officials eventually agreed to the union's proposed salary hike and added Memorial Day to their list of paid holidays. Union members accepted the companies' offer on Feb. 2, ending the three-day strike.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0392
title: Strikers conduct meeting at Eldon Manufacturing Co., circa 1941/1950, 1010 E. 62nd St., Los Angeles

description: Photograph of some of the strikers holding a meeting outside the Eldon Manufacturing Co. plant, 1010 E. 62nd Street in Los Angeles. The strikers are members are the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700, who walked off their jobs in a contract dispute. Among the union members are Roger Byrd, third from right, and Lee Gorlick, right.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0394
title: May Co. employees sign letter to end discriminatory hiring, circa 1946, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of May Co. employees writing a letter to Tom May, vice-president of the department store chain. The letter reads: "Dear Mr. May: We urge you to stop discriminating in hiring sales and clerical personnel and to establish a fair employment policy at your store."