Charlotta Bass with journalists and staff of the California Eagle, Los Angeles, 1940s-1950s

Title: Charlotta Bass with journalists and staff of the California Eagle, Los Angeles, 1940s-1950s
Alternative title: Charlotta Bass and the California Eagle newspaper
Date Created: [1940-1960]
Date: 1940/1960
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: 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.
Libby Clark was a Columbia journalism graduate, a syndicated food writer whose column ran in over 150 newspapers, and she also founded the public relations firm, Libby Clark Associates. She was awarded the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award on her 85th birthday. Gertrude Gipson (Penland) wrote the Candid Comments society column for the Sentinel. Jessie Mae Brown Beavers was a Society Women's editor, and Family Section executive editor at the Sentinel.
Charlotta Bass (center) at an event with journalists and California Eagle staff, left to right: Libby Clark, Mr. Williams, unidentified woman, Charlotta Bass, unidentified woman, Gertrude Gipson, Jessie Mae Brown Beavers, and an unidentified woman. They are standing behind a table with a flower arrangement in the center.
Caption: Written on back of photo: credit Southern California library for Social Studies & Research, Inc.

Genre: Portrait photographs
Names: Gipson, Gertrude, 1923-1999
Bass, Charlotta A., 1880-1969
Clark, Libby, 1917 or 18-2012
California Eagle (Firm)
Beavers, Jessie Mae Brown, 1923-1989
Subject Geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: African American journalists
African American civil rights workers
African American newspaper editors