Loren Miller family, Los Angeles, 1957

Item Overview

Title

Loren Miller family, Los Angeles, 1957

Alternative title

Loren Miller family

Photographer

Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988

Date Created

September 1957

Date

1957-09

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Loren Miller (seated, left) with his family. The women beside him is probably his mother, Nora Magdalene Miller. The men might include one or more of his brothers, Roland, Cecil and Halvor (who lived in Chicago later in his life). One of the women may be his sister Helen Addison.
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

Portrait photographs

Names

Miller, Loren
Miller, Nora Magdalene, 1877-1970

Subject Geographic

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American journalists
African American civil rights workers
African American judges
African American lawyers