Charlotta Bass, Norman O. Houston and others at Golden State Mutual Life Insurance, Los Angeles, circa 1949

Title: Charlotta Bass, Norman O. Houston and others at Golden State Mutual Life Insurance, Los Angeles, circa 1949
Alternative title: Unidentified group
Date Created: [circa 1949]
Date: 1949
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Charlotta Bass (2nd from left), Norman O. Houston (center) with two other men and another woman at the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building, probably after its completion in 1949.
Charlotta Bass was the publisher of the California Eagle newspaper from 1912 to 1951, and a civil rights activist. The California Eagle, covering Los Angeles' African-American community, was one of the oldest and longest running African American newspapers.
Norman O. Houston was the president of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, at one time the largest black-owned business west of the Mississippi.

Genre: group portraits
Names: Houston, Norman O. (Norman Oliver), 1893-1981
Bass, Charlotta A., 1880-1969
Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Subject Geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 41.878732-87.677244
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Insurance executives
African American newspaper editors