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DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0256
title: Photo of Charles Carr, circa 1951/1960, Whittier

description: Photograph of Charles Carr. The back  of the photograph contains this lengthy handwritten obituary: "To the eternal  honor and glory of Charles Carr, Whittier Calif. For the triumphant victory of the cause he so valiantly strove to help win for all. Born in Texas. Family fled to Wyoming in the 1870s. The children walked to school six miles (12 mi.) daily, oft times in snow storms & even blizzards. A coal miner in the vast N.W.  Then after wanderings all over U.S. settled in Idaho. Organized the boiler makers --  now his trade -- of the Great Northern R.R. The fascist bosses reward him with  charges of criminal syndicalism. Trumped up fakery. 3-1/2 years in the pen.  Out. Returns to his home, Pocatello. In a few years the co. assessors tax him  out. To So. Calif. Builds small shack on Beverly Blvd. & San Gabriel River.  At east end of 500 foot, Beverly Blvd. Bridge. Wine OK & riff raff cook & sleep --  a la paste boards, under the structure. C.C. settles fights. Gives foods to the  starving. Works for the 'white' for miles around. Gardening, etc. Has beautiful  flower garden of his own. The flood of 1937 lapped at his doorway. He now lived  half way between Jim Town, south, on the river and Pio Pico Park a mile east on  the Hondo River, descendants of Governor Pico's reign. In between now came the  good whites and the 'lily' whites. Many & devious were the attempts to roust him,  oust him, implicate, plot and infuriate.; Charles lived  and thrived, a true ruler in his own domain. Many were the gifts tossed to him by the colored  men on the U.P. trains running 'next door.' Children loved him. Played checkers  with him. Left their b-b guns & duds with him while playing & swimming up river.  In 1947 the wooden bridge burned down. At 10 A.M. C.C. later told me, a pick up  truck drove furiously past. Then stopped several hundred feet away. Planted a  fierce burning flare between two planks & sped on. I was in the hospital in  Whittier. A new man came in the ward. Told the story of the famed bridge, and 'they think the old nigger there, burned it.' I shouted that could not be and  must not be so charged. That I'd know(n) him more than 15 years, and even the  'law' had declared he was the clean person of the whole community, and kept down  the law-breaking elements. This, when the St. Helen's Petroleum Company tried  to frame him. Now and then he would permit white people from other parts to camp  there. Would lend them his wash tubs, ironing board & stove. In 1950 a very sweet  dear fine white woman came there. Out of work. C. moved to shed. She took his bed.  And board. They lived a beautiful idyllic life till she died about 1954. C. was  murdered in The Gen'l Hosp. In 1955. By hospital neglect -- gangrene!  Fascism!!!!! By aid of Edison Company."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0257
title: Reuben W. Borough, circa 1921/1930

description: Photograph of Reuben W. Borough, political activist and journalist. In the 1930s, Borough edited Upton Sinclair's EPIC (End Poverty in California) News. In the late 1940s, he was one of the founders of the national Progresive Party and of the party's California organization, the Independent Progressive Party. Borough ran unsuccessfully on the Progressive Party ticket for California Treasurer in 1950 and U.S. Senator in 1952.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0259
title: Reuben Borough campaigning for Congress, 1946, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Reuben W. Borough, left, during his 1946 campagn for U.S. Congress from the 20th District of California. The identities of the other two people in the photograph are unknown. The car in the background has two signs attached to it. One is a campaign poster with a photograph of Borough, declaring "Fight Inflation, Borough for Congress." The other sign reads "No more gravel pits." The back of the photograph contains the handwritten notation: "My 1946 campaign for Congress. 20th district."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0233
title: Edward Evans, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Edward Evans, published in the California Eagle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0253
title: Rev. and Mrs. N.P. Greggs, circa 1921/1930, Los Angeles

description: Sepia-toned photograph of Rev. and Mrs. N.P. Greggs. Greggs was the leader of the First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0239
title: Sadie Louise Davison, circa Jan. 1, 1947, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Sadie Louise Davison, wearing a gardenia in her hair. Davison's photo was published in the "Trail Blazers" column of the California Eagle on Jan. 1, 1947.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0228
title: Thomas L. Griffith, Jr., circa 1931/1940, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Thomas L. Griffith, Jr. An attorney and civil rights activist, Griffith was president of the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP from 1935-1950. He was later appointed a judge of the Los Angeles Municipal Court.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0258
title: Reuben Borough in a backyard, circa 1928

description: Photograph of Reuben W. Borough wearing a bathing suit and holding a pair of sunglasses as he stands in a backyard. The location and date of the photo are unknown. Borough was a political activitist and one of the founders of the Progressive Party.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0249
title: Ruth Sawyer, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Ruth Sawyer, published in the California Eagle. Sawyer wears an evening gown, hoop earrings and a diamond or rhinestone necklace.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0230
title: W.T. Vernon (?), circa 1901/1910

description: Postcard with photograph of two African-American men wearing three-piece suits and holding derby hats. The bottom of the postcard contains the handwritten words "W.T. Vernon, U.S. Treas." The message suggests that one of the men could be W.T. Vernon, the president of Western University in Quindero, Kansas, whom Pres. Theodore Roosevelt appointed Registrar of the U.S. Treasury. Vernon served in the Treasury position from 1906 until 1911. In later years he was bishop of an African Methodist Episcopal congregation.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0047
title: Charlotta Bass and guests at the California Eagle's 70th birthday celebration, Los Angeles, 1949

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, and some of the guests who attended the newspaper's seventieth birthday celebration. Attorney Vince Monroe Townsend Jr. is seated in the front row, holding his hands on his knees. To his left are Rev. J. Raymond Henderson, pastor of the Second Baptist Church; Charlotta Bass, holding a purse; Rev. Clayton Russell, of the People's Independent Church of Christ; and Mabel V. Gray, a member and leader of many African-American women's clubs. The man at the left in the back row, facing away from the camera, is attorney Ben Margolis, a civil libertarian attorney and Bass' personal lawyer. Dr. Foster, a Los Angeles physician, is seated in the back row, third from left.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0036
title: Charlotta Bass and other citizens meet with officers at the Newton Division police station,  Los Angeles, 1949

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, far right, and a group of African-American citizens meeting with police officers and others at the Newton Division police station, July 5, 1949.  Charles H. Matthews, the second African-American to become a Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney, is seated third from left. Frederick Madison Roberts, the former California state assemblyman, stands against the wall, his arms folded over his chest. The California Eagle consistently pursued and publicized cases of suspected police brutality and abuse.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0048
title: Charlotta Bass holds a group meeting on behalf of the California Eagle, Pasadena, ca. 1941-1950

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, fifth from left, holding a meeting in Pasadena on behalf of her newspaper, the California Eagle. In addition to covering news events in Los Angeles, the Eagle regularly covered the activities of African-American citizens living in Pasadena, Santa Monica, Oxnard and other Southern California communities.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0037
title: Charlotta Bass and other visitors at the Hugh Gordon Book Shop, Los Angeles, ca. 1946-1950

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, second from right, looking at the book "Negro Liberation" at the Hugh Gordon Book Shop. Emil Freed, second from left, founder of the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, and Adele Young, forth from left, behind the book display, the shop's proprietor, also browse the store's materials. An orator, writer and community activist, Gordon advocated self-determination for Africans and worked with the Los Angeles Men's Forum, a civil rights organization. Gordon also helped organize the Pyramid Cooperative Grocery and Meat Market, a cooperative store in the African-American community. Upon his death, he left money in his will to open a bookstore specializing in materials about Africa and African-Americans. The Hugh Gordon Book Shop opened in the late 1940s and at various times during its existence was located at 1109 E. 42nd Place, 4310 S. Central Avenue and 4507 S. Central Avenue.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0055
title: Charlotta Bass and other guests at a banquet for the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms,  Los Angeles, 1954

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, center, and other guests at a banquet for the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms (CCPAF), February 1954. The man on the right is Rev. Stephen Fritchman of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles. The man on the left is unidentified. CCPAF was established in 1952 to oppose the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). CCPAF maintained that HUAC violated the First Amendment rights of the citizens who were called before it to testify about their political beliefs and associations.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0043
title: Adora Ulasi presents a corsage to Eslanda Goode Robeson, Los Angeles, 1945

description: Photograph of Adora Lily Ulasi, an employee of the California Eagle, pinning a corsage on the suit of Eslanda Goode Robeson. Ulasi and other Eagle staff members, including editor Charlotta Bass, were part of a welcoming party for Robeson when she visited Los Angeles in 1945.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0030
title: The staff of "The California Eagle Hour" prepare for their weekly radio broadcast, circa 1940, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of the California Eagle staff preparing for a broadcast of the newspaper's weekly radio show, "The California Eagle Hour." Announcer John Kinloch stands in front of a microphone, holding a script; the radio station call letters "KFVD" are printed on the microphone. Kinloch's aunt, Charlotta Bass, publisher of the Eagle, stands second from the right. Beginning in 1938, the Eagle produced a 15-minute newspaper-of-the-air, which was broadcast six nights a week on radio station KGFJ. The show was off the air for a while, but sometime around 1940 the Eagle began presenting "The California Eagle Hour" every Sunday over station KFVD. The program provided information about news, sports, social events and other activities in Los Angeles' African-American community.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0049
title: Charlotta Bass holds a group meeting on behalf of the California Eagle, Pasadena, ca. 1941-1950

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass speaking to a group of citizens who attended a meeting that the California Eagle held in Pasadena. In addition to covering news events in Los Angeles, the Eagle regularly covered the activities of African-American citizens living in Pasadena, Santa Monica, Oxnard and other Southern California communities.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0044
title: California Eagle reception for Eslanda Goode Robeson, Los Angeles, 1948

description: Photograph of Eslanda Goode Robeson, third from right, during a reception in her honor at the California Eagle offices on May 19, 1948. Charlotta Bass, the newspaper's publisher, is in the center of the photograph, next to a child. Mrs. Robeson, wife of actor and singer Paul Robeson, was her husband's manager and was closely associated with his various political campaigns, including opposition to fascism in Spain and attempts to persuade Congress to pass anti-lynching legislation.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0032
title: Charlotta Bass talks to three students at the offices of the California Eagle, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass talking to three young men who have come to see her at the offices of the California Eagle. The plaque on the right side of the photo is a certificate commemorating the California Eagle for joining the "Half Century Club" after the newspaper celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 1929.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0058
title: Charlotta Bass and a group of African-Americans photographed on a movie set, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, fourth from right, with a group of African-Americans on what appears to be a motion picture set. Floyd C. Covington, executive director of the Los Angeles Urban League, stands on the far left; Clarence Muse, an actor who was active in the NAACP, is fourth from the left. Jessie L. Terry, Democratic Party activist and member of the Los Angeles Housing Commission, stands next to Bass, fifth from right.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0039
title: Charlotta Bass assists the Red Cross, Los Angeles, ca. 1931-1940

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, who appears to be holding a book as she talks with people gathered outside an American Red Cross vehicle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0053
title: Charlotta Bass attends a meeting of Hadassah, Los Angeles, 1949

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, third from the left, attending a meeting of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, Oct. 27, 1949. Hadassah awarded Bass an honorary membership in recognition of her public activism.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0035
title: California Eagle staff reunion, Los Angeles, ca. 1978

description: Photograph of staff who worked at the California Eagle in 1951 during a staff reunion in the late 1970s. The former staff members in the front row, from left, are Kerry Jackson, writer; Edward "Abie" Robinson, circulation, sports editor, social editor and crime reporter; Grace Simons Glass, executive editor; and Wendell Green, feature and editorial writer. In the back row, from left, are Brad Pye, sports editor, and Hal Miller, writer. Charlotta Bass retired from the Eagle in 1951, after serving as publisher of the weekly publication for 40 years. The newspaper ceased publication in 1965.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0034
title: Charlotta Bass instructs Adora Lily Ulasi, Los Angeles, ca. 1945

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, right, giving Adora Lily Ulasi some advice about journalism. Ulasi, a Nigerian student, came to Los Angeles around 1945, lived with Bass for a year, and was a reporter and columnist at the California Eagle.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0040
title: Charlotta Bass crowns the queen at the hairstyle and fashion show,  Los Angeles, 1946

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, right, publisher of the California Eagle, crowning the queen of a hairstyle and fashion show held at Elks Hall in 1946. The queen's name is unknown.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0033
title: Charlotta Bass at a celebration with the staff of the California Eagle, Los Angeles, ca. 1951-1960

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, center, and the staff of the California Eagle. Bass holds a gold cup, which could be a gift from staff members. The woman in the black and white hat standing behind Bass is Frances Williams, actress and civil rights activist.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0057
title: Banquet for Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms, February 1954, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass and other guests at a banquet for the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms (CCPAF). Bass is wearing a white hat and is seated in the center of the front row. The man seated next to Bass with the glasses and bowtie is Frank Wilkinson, one of CCPAF's founders. The man seated on Bass' left, with his hand near his chin, is Harvey O'Connor, a muckraking author and the banquet's keynote speaker. Rev. Stephen Fritchman of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles is seated next to O'Connor; Fritchman's wife, Frances, is seated next to Fritchman. CCPAF was established in 1952 to oppose the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC).
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0051
title: Charlotta Bass is honored by Hadassah, Oct. 27, 1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, right, receiving an honorary life membership to Hadassah at a meeting held in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 1949. The woman in the hat presenting the award may be Sylvia (Mrs. Benjamin) Miller, president of the Los Angeles Chapter of this national Jewish women's organization. In her memoirs, Bass describes how she received a letter from Miller stating that "Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization . has voted to honor you as one of the 10 most outstanding women in this area. . As a women's organization Hadassah is proud of your splendid work and your devotion to the ideas of public service coupled with complete integrity of thought and action."
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0052
title: Charlotta Bass attends a meeting of Hadassah, Oct. 27, 1949, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, second from right, attending a meeting of the Los Angeles Chapter of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America. Bass received an honorary membership to the organization in recognition of her dedication to public service. Actress Ethel Barrymore, the wife of actor Spencer Tracy, and Judge Georgia Bullock, the first woman to serve as a judge of the U.S. District Court in California, were also honored by Hadassah.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0054
title: Charlotta Bass attends a banquet for the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms, Los Angeles, 1954

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, left, and other guests at a banquet for the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms (CCPAF), February 1954. Harvey O'Connor sits next to Bass, holding his glasses; a veteran socialist and labor news reporter, O'Connor was the keynote speaker at the banquet. Frank Wilkinson, one of the CCPAF's founders, has his arm on O'Connor's shoulder and is talking to him. Rev. Stephen Fritchman of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles is seated third from left; his wife, Frances, sits next to him, holding up her hands as she speaks to Madeleine Borough, the woman sitting next to her. Madeline's husband, Reuben Borough, is standing behind the people seated at the table. CCPAF was established in 1952 to oppose the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). Wilkinson helped establish the CCPAF after losing his job with the City of Los Angeles Housing Authority because he refused to take a loyalty oath.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0042
title: Charlotta Bass welcomes Eslanda Goode Robeson to Los Angeles, 1945

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, second from left, welcoming Eslanda Goode Robeson, second from right, to Los Angeles. Mrs. Robeson, the wife of actor and singer Paul Robeson, was her husband's manager and was closely associated with his various political campaigns, including opposition to fascism in Spain and attempts to persuade Congress to pass anti-lynching legislation.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0029
title: John Kinloch at his desk in the California Eagle offices, circa 1940, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of John Kinloch, managing editor of the California Eagle, sitting in front of his typewriter at a desk in the newspaper offices. Kinloch came to Los Angeles to live with his aunt, Charlotta Bass, and with hopes of becoming a screenwriter. Among his duties at the Eagle, Kinloch wrote a column, "Kinloch's Corner," and was the announcer of the newspaper's nightly radio program. Bass was groooming Kinloch to take over the newspaper, but her plans were shattered when Kinloch was killed in a battle during World War II.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0038
title: Charlotta Bass visits the Hugh Gordon Book Shop,  Los Angeles, ca. 1946-1950

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, center, browsing materials about African-Americans at the Hugh Gordon Book Shop. The woman second from the left is Adele Young, proprietor of the book store. She was the aunt of Carmen de Lavallade, an American actress, dancer and choreographer. An orator, writer and community activist, Gordon advocated self-determination for Africans and worked with the Los Angeles Men's Forum, a civil rights organization. Upon his death, Gordon left money in his will to open a bookstore specializing in materials about Africa and African-Americans. The Hugh Gordon Book Shop opened in the late 1940s, and during its existence was located at various places on or near Central Avenue, including 1109 E. 42nd Place, 4310 S. Central Ave., and 4507 S. Central Ave.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0060
title: Charlotta Bass speaks at a church, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, delivering a speech at an African-American church in Los Angeles.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0059
title: Charlotta Bass with African-American community leaders, circa 1941/1950, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, center, with a group of African-American community leaders at a church in Los Angeles. Thomas L. Griffith, Jr. an attorney and president of the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP from 1935-1950, is on the far left; Rev. J. Raymond Henderson, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, is second from left; Rev. J. Clayton Russell of the People's Independent Church of Christ, is on the far right.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0025
title: Charlotta Bass and California Eagle production staff, 1929/1934, Watts

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, left, standing in front of the California Eagle's printing plant with Al Joseph, pressman, center, and Jesus Cano, compositor, right. In 1929, the newspaper moved its printing plant from 814 S. Central Avenue in Los Angeles to the plant shown in the photograph at 1607 E. 103rd Street in Watts. The paper was produced at the Watts' plant from 1929 until 1934.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0056
title: Charlotta Bass talks with guests at a banquet of the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms, February 1954, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Charlotta Bass, second from right, talking to unidentified guests at a banquet for the Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms (CCPAF). CCPAF was established in 1952 to oppose the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). CCPAF maintained that HUAC violated the First Amendment rights of the citizens who were called before it to testify about their political beliefs and associations.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0031
title: Jessie Mae Brown, society columnist for the California Eagle, July, 18, 1946, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of Jessie Mae Brown, society columnist for the California Eagle, posing with a plaque of recognition she has received. The photograph was published in the Eagle on July 18, 1946.
DOI: 10.25549/scl-m0028
title: John Kinloch in front of the California Eagle offices, circa 1941, Los Angeles

description: Photograph of John Kinloch standing in front of the California Eagle editorial offices. The photograph appears to be taken after the U.S. entered World War II, because the sign in back of Kinloch urges people to contribute to the Los Angeles War Chest, a United Way fund-raising campaign organized during the war. In addition, the sign showing the white "V" in a circle may be a "V for Victory" sign. Kinloch, the nephew of Charlotta Bass, came to Los Angeles in 1936, and later was managing editor of his aunt's newspaper, the California Eagle. He also founded and was president of the NAACP Junior Council.