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DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0190
title: Mr. Robinson explains Czech history to a young boy, circa 1950, Prague

description: Photograph of Mr. Robinson, left, and a Czech boy looking at a statue of the Archbishop of Prague in St. Vitus Cathedral. The photograph was collected by Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, when she visited Prague in 1950 and learned about African-Americans living there. The back of the photograph contains the following text: "Robinson is slowly becoming a native of Prague. He loves and knows the town well and takes the opportunity to tell a Czech boy something of the history of the late Archbishop of Prague -- Kaspar -- which stands in Prague St. Vitus Cathedral situated in the courtyard of the Prague Castle."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0180
title: Lily Golden holds tennis racket, circa 1950, Moscow

description: Photograph of Lily Golden holding a tennis racket. Golden was born in Tashkent and spent her early years there, becoming a champion tennis player in Soviet Central Asia. She moved to Moscow when she was a teenager and studied African history and music. Golden's father, John, an African-American, and his wife, Bertha, emigrated from the United States to the U.S.S.R. in 1931 to avoid racial persecution.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0176
title: Lily Golden at her home, circa 1950, Moscow

description: Photograph of Lily Golden sitting in a window seat at her home in Moscow. The daughter of an African-American father who moved to the U.S.S.R., Golden was born in Tashkent in 1934 and spent her early years there, becoming a tennis champion of Soviet Central Asia. She later moved to Moscow to study African history and music. Lily met Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, when Bass visited Moscow in 1950. By that time, Golden's father, John, had died. But Lily told Bass she would never forget his stories about the persecution of black people in the United States.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0155
title: Holiday greeting card from the Lima Family, circa 1951/1960

description: Holiday greeting card from Albert "Mickie" Lima, his wife Helen, and their daughter Margaret. Mickie Lima was head of the Communist Party of Northern California. The Limas sent this card to Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0186
title: Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas meets with some of her constituents, circa 1945/1950, Washington, D.C.

description: Photograph of U.S. Rep. Helen Gahagan Douglas, third from right, meeting some of her Los Angeles constituents who have travled to Washington, D.C. The visitors are, from left, Claude McKinnon, Juanita Terry, Dr. H. Claude Hudson, Amerigo Bozzani, H.A. Howard, Douglas, Clayton Russell, and Gwendolyn Diggs Russell. Douglas represented the 14th District of California in the House of Representatives from 1945 until 1950. Clayton Russell was the head of the People's Independent Church of Christ; Gwendolyn Diggs Russell was his wife. H. Claude Hudson was president of the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP from 1924 until 1934, and in 1947 founded Broadway Federal Savings, a financial institution serving Los Angeles' African-American community. Juanita Terry was an administrative assistant to Congresswoman Douglas and was active in Democratic Party activities in Los Angeles. H. A. Howard was a realtor and later an executive at Broadway Federal Savings. Amerigo Bozzani owned a Los Angeles automobile dealership.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0184
title: Leon H. Washington outside the offices of the Los Angeles Sentinel, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Leon H. Washington standing outside the Central Avenue office of the Los Angeles Sentinel. Washington is carrying a camera. Washington was the advertising manager at the California Eagle in the early 1930s. In 1933, he left the Eagle to establish the Sentinel, a rival African-American newspaper.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0157
title: New Year's card from William Patterson and family, circa 1941/1950

description: New Year's greetings card with a photograph of the Patterson family: Louise, left, her husband, William "Pat", and their daughter, Mary-Lou. The Pattersons sent this card to Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle. The card contains a poem by Langston Hughes: "Give us peace accepting every challenge/The challenge of the poor, the black, of all denied/The challenge of the vast colonial world/That long has had so little justice by its side." William Patterson was one of the most prominent African-American civil rights and Communist leaders. An attorney, Patterson in the 1920s defended Sacco and Vanzetti, anarchists executed for murder and robbery. He joined the Communist Party in 1927, and as executive director of the Party's International Labor Defense defended the "Scottsboro Boys," nine young African-Americans falsely accused of raping two white women. In the 1940s Patterson was national executive director of the Civil Rights Congress, which during its existence from 1946-56 fought and obtained numerous civil liberties rulings.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0189
title: Paul Robeson, circa 1941/1950

description: Photograph of Paul Robeson, social activist, actor and singer.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0164
title: Marguerite Edwards in a bathing suit in her backyard, August 1951, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Marguerite Edwards, wearing a bathing suit, in the backyard of her house at 833 E. 32nd Street, Los Angeles. Edwards gave this photo to her friend, Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0156
title: Adora Lily Ulasi, circa 1945, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Adora Lily Ulasi. Ulasi, a Nigerian woman, came to Los Angeles around 1945 and lived with Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle. Ulasi was a reporter and columnist for the Eagle during her stay in Los Angeles.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0177
title: Lily Golden reading a book at her home, circa 1950, Moscow

description: Photograph of Lily Golden reading a book at her home in Moscow. On her desk are numerous books writen in Russian, a bust, and a vase of flowers. Golden's father, John, was born in the United States and moved to the U.S.S.R. to avoid racial persecution. Lily grew up in the U.S.S.R., attending a music school in Moscow where she learned to play piano. She was also a champion tennis player, competiting in tennis matches in the Central Asia and other parts of the U.S.S.R.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0168
title: Gladys Greenaway, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Gladys Greenaway published in the California Eagle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0161
title: Ernestine Wade, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Ernestine Wade, taken sometime in the 1940s. Wade is best known for portraying Sapphire Stevens, the wife of the Kingfish, in both the radio and television versions of "Amos 'n' Andy." She starred in numerous other television shows and movies during her career.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0183
title: Hattie McDaniel participating in an Academy Awards broadcast, Mar. 13, 1947, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of actress Hattie McDaniel, center, participating in a radio broadcast of the Academy Awards on March 13, 1947. The other participants are actor Wonderful Smith, left, and commentator Frances Scully, right. The show was broadcast over ABC radio. McDaniel stands in front of a microphone with the letters "ABC" printed on it. McDaniel was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award, receiving an award for portraying Mammy in the 1939 film, "Gone with the Wind."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0165
title: Marguerite Edwards at the beach, circa 1951, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Marguerite Edwards on the beach, wearing a bathing suit and sunglasses and holding a broad-brimmed hat. Edwards was a friend of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle. The back of the photograph contains a handwritten note "To my Pal Bass, Marguerite."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0187
title: International Labor Defense rallies in support of Sacco and Vanzetti, April 26, 1927, San Francisco

description: Photograph of members of the International Labor Defense at a rally in support of Sacco and Vanzetti. The demonstrators are standing by a poster that has a picture of two men in jail and the message "Sacco-Vanzetti Must Not Die! International Labor Defense." A young man holds two copies of the organization's magazine, "Labor Defense." The International Labor Defense, the legal arm of the Communist Party, was established in 1925 to counter groups like the Ku Klux Klan and to defend high profile controversial cases. One of those cases was the trial of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchists who were tried in 1921 and later executed for murder and robbery.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0181
title: Hattie McDaniel at her wedding, circa 1931/1940, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of actress Hattie McDaniel and her husband, Lloyd Crawford, on the couple's wedding day. McDaniel was one of the best-known African-American actresses of her era. She won a Best Supporting Actress award for her portrayal of Mammy in the film "Gone With the Wind," the first African-American to win this award.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0158
title: Greeting card from Eugene Dennis and family to Charlotta Bass, 1953, Atlanta, Georgia and New York City

description: New Year's card from Eugene Dennis, his wife, Peggy, and their son, Gene, Jr., sent to Charlotta Bass in 1953. The cover of the card contains a photograph of Eugene Dennis atop a bookcase in his home in New York City. At the time the card was sent, Dennis, secretary general of the Communist Party USA, was serving a five-year term in a federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for violating the Smith Act. The Smith Act made it illegal for anyone in the United States to advocate, abet or teach the desirability of overthrowing any government. The card contains a message from Peggy Dennis, stating that "although he has been in prison for two and one-half years, Gene is ever confident that more and more people will come to realize that amnesty for all political prisoners of the Smith and McCarran Acts means the liberation of the Bill of Rights, the restoration of democratic liberties to all Americans, the furtherance of the cause of world peace."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0160
title: Holiday greetings from the Slaton children, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles

description: Greeting card showing the three Slaton children, with each child holding a sign to spell out the greeting "Happy New Year." The children are, from left, Shelley, Baxter and Glenn Curtis Slaton; their parents are William and Nellie-Becker Slaton. Becker-Slaton was a staff writer at the California Eagle in the 1940s. The Slatons sent this card to Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle. In addition to the photograph, the card contains a typewritten message: "And may your most cherished dreams come true."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0172
title: A session of the Defenders of the Peace Committee World Conference, August 29, 1950, Prague

description: Photograph of Anezka Hodinova-Spurna delivering a speech at a world conference of the Defenders of the Peace Committee, held in Prague in August 1950. Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, was one of the delegates at the conference. In her memoirs, Bass described how the committee drafted an appeal urging nations to ban the atomic bomb.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0179
title: Lily Golden plays the piano, circa 1950, Moscow

description: Photograph of Lily Golden playing the piano. Golden was a student at the Secondary Music School, an affiliate of the Conservatory of Moscow when she was a teenager. She was also a champion tennis player, and one of her tennis rackets stands alongside the wall in the background of the photograph. Her father, John Golden, was born in the United States and moved to the U.S.S.R. in 1931 to avoid racial persecution. Lily was born and raised in Tashkent and later moved to Moscow to study African history and music.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0162
title: Jack Davis, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Jack Davis published in the California Eagle newspaper.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0171
title: Wayland Rudd and Irene Yvanova, 1949, Moscow

description: Postcard containing a photograph of Irene Yvanova, left, and Wayland Rudd. An African-American, Rudd went to Moscow in 1932 to make a movie, and decided to remain in the U.S.S.R. Rudd and Yvanova were entertainers in the U.S.S.R, and the back of the postcard contains the handwritten sentence: "We played 'Deep are the Roots' for the Soviet people." "Deep are the Roots" was an American play about a sensitive African-American man seeking his own identity in a racist society. Rudd met Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, when she visited Moscow in 1950. At that time, Rudd was the manager and director of one of Moscow's largest movie theaters.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0178
title: Lily Golden at school, circa 1950, Moscow

description: Photograph of Lily Golden at her school in Moscow. Golden is standing and looking at two older women, who appear to be teachers. Three students are seated at school desks in the background. Lily's father, John Golden, moved from the United States to the U.S.S.R. in 1931 to avoid racial persecution. Lily was born and raised in the U.S.S.R. She attended the Secondary Music School, an affiliate of the Conservatory of Moscow, where she learned to play the piano.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0159
title: Season's greeting card from Slaton family, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles

description: Holiday greeting card featuring a photograph of Nellie Becker-Slaton, her husband, Bill Slaton, and their eldest child, Glenn Curtis. The card contains the printed message "Season's Greetings from our house to your house." The Slatons sent this card to Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle. Becker-Slaton was a staff writer at the Eagle in the 1940s.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0182
title: Hattie, Etta and Sam McDaniel, circa 1931/1940, Los Angeles(?)

description: Photograph of Hattie, Etta and Sam McDaniel disembarking from a railroad car. The three actors appeared in hundreds of films in the 1930s. Hattie McDaniel (right) is the best known of the three; she was the first African-American to receive the Academy Award when she won Best Supporting Actress honors for portraying Mammy in "Gone with the Wind." Her sister, Etta, left, and brother, Sam, center, also appeared in numerous Hollywood films.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0173
title: African dancers at the Defenders of the Peace Committee World Conference, August 23, 1950, Prague

description: Photograph of four African men performing songs and dances for delegates attending the world conference of the Defenders of the Peace Committee. Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, was one of the delegates to the conference.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0170
title: Max and Garland Williams, Dec. 22, 1940

description: Photograph of Max Joseph Blackburn Williams, left, age 4, and his brother, Garland Harding Williams, age 2. The photo was presented to Charlotta Bass and bears the handwritten inscription "To Mrs. Bass from Maxie and Garland Williams, 12/22/40." The two boys may have been related to Bass' husband, Joseph Blackburn Bass.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0174
title: Gladys Owens Spikes views a statue of her great grandmother, Biddy Mason, 1circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Gladys Owens Spikes, left, discussing a statute of her great-grandmother, Biddy Mason, with Beulah Woodard, right, and Harriet Fritzhand, second from right. Mason was born in Georgia in 1818, where her parents were slaves. She escaped slavery by moving to Missouri, at the time a "free" state. She later settled in Los Angeles with her three daughters, where she eventually became one of the wealthiest landowners in the city. Mason used her wealth to establish a day nursery for poor children and orphans and to open grocery store accounts for needy families.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0166
title: Lillian Lomax boards the City of Los Angeles Streamliner, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Lillian Lomax as she boards the City of Los Angeles Streamliner to leave Los Angeles. Lomax is carrying a small suitcase and what appears to be a bouquet of flowers. This photo was published in the California Eagle with the caption "Pretty red head."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0175
title: Lily Golden sits on a window seat at her home, circa 1950, Moscow

description: Photograph of Lily Gordon at her home in Moscow. Golden holds a book and looks out the window as she sits in a window seat. Lily's father, John Golden, was an African-American who experienced racial persecution in the United States. In 1931, he and his wife, Bertha, moved to the U.S.S.R., where Golden worked as a specialist in cotton cultivation in the Central Asian city of Tashkent. His daughter, Lily, was born in Tashkent in 1934, and spent her early years there, becoming a tennis champion of Soviet Central Asia. She later moved to Moscow to study African history and music. Lily was living in Moscow when Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, visited there in 1950.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0163
title: Celeste Maria, circa 1951/1960, Los Angeles

description: Publicity photograph of singer Celeste Maria. Maria poses in an evening gown with feathers in her hair. The back of the photograph contains the notation: "Celeste Maria, Canadian born Contralto (sic) appearing on KECA-TV," a Los Angeles television station.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0145
title: Helen Gahagan Douglas, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles(?)

description: Photograph of Helen Gahagan Douglas. The photograph was presented to Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, with a handwritten message: "To Mrs. Charlotta Bass, with all good wishes." Douglas, a New Deal Democrat and liberal, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1945-1950. In 1950, she ran for U.S. Senate, but lost to her Republican opponent, Richard Nixon, who ran an ugly campaign in which he insinuated that Douglas was a Communist.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0152
title: Victorine Spears Kinloch, circa 1951/1960

description: Photograph of Victorine Spears Kinloch in her later years. Kinloch's sister was Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle from 1912-1951.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0136
title: Charlotte Bass in a garden, circa 1941/1950

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass standing in a garden .
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0140
title: Charlotta Bass and friends, circa 1961/1969

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass with friends. Bass is holding a cane and a travel bag. The woman holding the large black bag is Ruth Brent; the other three people are unidentified.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0134
title: Charlotta Bass outside a residence, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles (?)

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, standing outside a residence, which most probably is located in Los Angeles.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0151
title: Celebration for the California Eagle, April 3, 1947, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of a group of diners attending a celebration for the California Eagle on April 3, 1947, at an unidentified location in Los Angeles. Dinner guests include Monsignor Thomas O'Dwyer, seated in the left row, third from the back, and Ben Margolis, seated at the end of the right row, partially hidden behind a woman's hat. O'Dwyer advocated for better housing for the poor. Margolis was a prominent civil rights attorney whose clients included the defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder trial and the Hollywood Ten.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0141
title: Charlotta Bass and friends, circa 1961/1969

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, center, and two unidentified friends.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0148
title: Gordon Hilyard, 1948, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Gordon Hilyard, age six. The portrait was presented to Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, inside a frame, and was signed "With Love Gordon." Gordon's father, Gene, was a distributor at the Eagle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0144
title: Jessie Mae Brown, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Jessie Mae Brown, society editor of the California Eagle. Brown sent this photo to Charlotta Bass, the newspaper's publisher. Brown signed the photo "Loads of love, Madam, Jessie Mae." Brown later became family editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel, a rival African-American newspaper.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0149
title: Victorine Spears Kinloch, February, 1919

description: Postcard with photograph of Victorine Spears Kinloch taken in Feburary 1919 at an unknown location. Kinloch's sister, Charlotta Bass, was publisher of the California Eagle. Kinloch's son, John, worked as the Eagle's managing editor in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0153
title: John Kinloch plays stickball, circa 1931/1940, New York City

description: Photograph of John Kinloch playing stickball on a New York City street. John, the son of Victorine and Alexander Kinloch, was raised in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles when he was 14 and lived with his aunt, Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle. Kinloch eventually became the newspaper's managing editor. This photo was pasted inside Bass' scrapbook.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0133
title: Charlotta Bass visits a Russian Orthodox church, 1950, Moscow

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, far right, visiting a Russian Orthodox church in Moscow during her visit there in 1950.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0147
title: The Hilyard family, circa 1943, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of the Hilyard family. Gene Hilyard, a distributor at the California Eagle, is pictured with his wife, Greta, and their three children. Gordon, the youngest child, sits on his mother's lap; the names of the other two children are not known. The Hilyards gave this photograph to Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle; the back of the photograph contains the handwritten message "To Our Grandmother With All Our Love, The Hilyard Family."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0150
title: The S.S. James W. Johnson docked at the Terminal Island shipyard, Los Angeles, circa 1943

description: Photograph of the S.S. James W. Johnson, a liberty ship christened by Charlotta Bass, editor of the California Eagle. The ship was one of the first liberty ships named for an African-American. James Weldon Johnson, a writer and composer, was a member of the U.S. Government Consular Service in South America. Johnson later was the first Executive Secretary of the NAACP, leading a campaign to secure passage of an anti-lynching law. In her autobiography, Bass wrote that "selection by the California Shipbuilding Corporation of myself as the sponsor for the launching of this new Liberty Ship was indeed a signal honor to me, and was a tribute to the growing influence of the California Eagle. Some observers pointed out that it was the California Eagle during the period of my editorship which led the fight which secured employment of the first Negro workers in the Los Angeles shipyards."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0143
title: Charlotta Bass and two friends outside her home, circa 1961/1969, Elsinore

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, center, and two unidentified friends outside Bass' home at 709 West Heald Avenue, Elsinore. Bass moved to Elsinore (now Lake Elsinore), California, in 1960.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0138
title: Charlotta Bass reads a newspaper, circa 1941/1950

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, reading a newspaper at an unidentified location.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0146
title: Gene and Greta Hilyard, circa 1943, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Gene Hilyard and his wife, Greta. The photograph was presented to Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, and on the back of the portrait is a handwritten message: "To Our Wonderful Sweet 'Momma,' Love Always Gene & Greta." Gene was a distributor at the Eagle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0132
title: Charlotta Bass visits a church, 1950, Moscow

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, center, visiting a Russian Orthodox church during her trip to Moscow in 1950.