Wedding of Loren Miller, Jr., Los Angeles, 1957 (?)

Item Overview

Title

Wedding of Loren Miller, Jr., Los Angeles, 1957 (?)

Alternative title

Loren Miller family

Date Created

[November 16, 1957 (?)]

Date

1957-11-16

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Loren Miller, Jr. with his bride, Anne M. Risher (probably), his parents (on right) Juanita Ellsworth Miller and Loren Miller, Sr., and the bride's' parents (on the left). According to Ancestry.com, Miller, Jr., married Anne M. Risher in 1957, and Patricia A. Harris in 1970. This looks like a 1957 photograph.
Loren Miller, Jr., was a judge on the Los Angeles Superior Court.
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
Miller, Anne M. Risher, b. 1938 or 39
Miller, Loren
Miller, Loren, Jr., 1937-2011

Subject Geographic

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American couples
African American judges
Weddings