Juanita Ellsworth Miller and Roy Wilkins, 1963

Item Overview

Title

Juanita Ellsworth Miller and Roy Wilkins, 1963

Alternative title

Loren Miller family

Date Created

August 1963

Date

1963-08

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Juanita Ellsworth Miller was the Deputy Director of the Department of Social Welfare for the State of California, a chartered member of the Allied Arts League and a life member of the NAACP. She was married to judge Loren Miller.
Juanita Ellsworth Miller and Roy Wilkins attending a civic event.
Roy Ottoway Wilkins was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement from the 1930s to the 1970s. As a member of the NAACP he contributed to the successful outcomes of Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Loren Miller was an American journalist, civil rights activist, attorney and judge. Miller was appointed to the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles (1964-1967). Miller's primary civil rights concerns were housing discrimination, police brutality, and discriminatory hiring practices in the police and fire departments. Miller argued some of the most historic civil rights cases ever heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. He was chief counsel before the court in the 1948 decision that led to the outlawing of racial restrictive covenants. He purchased the newspaper, The California Eagle, from Charlotta Bass (1951) and he began writing for the Eagle, which earned him a reputation in the black community as an articulate and outspoken defender of African Americans. Under Loren Miller's stewardship, the California Eagle continued to press for the complete integration of African Americans in every sector of society, and to protest all forms of Jim Crow. He also contributed numerous articles to such journals as The Crisis, The Nation, and Law in Transition. Governor Edmund G. Brown of California appointed Miller to the Superior Court (1964) of California, where he served until his death.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

photographs

Names

Miller, Juanita, 1904-1970
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American civil rights workers
African American social workers