Loren Miller, seated, and Billy Mills at the opening of the English Square office building, Los Angeles, 1964

Item Overview

Title

Loren Miller, seated, and Billy Mills at the opening of the English Square office building, Los Angeles, 1964

Alternative title

Loren Miller family

Photographer

Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988

Date Created

February 19, 1964

Date

1964-02-19

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Loren Miller, seated, beside Billy Mills, speaking at a microphone, with a crowd of people behind them at the opening of the English Square office complex at 85th and Broadway. The owner of English Square was attorney Herman English.
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.

Caption

Photographer stamp on back: Please Credit Photo / Harry H. Adams / 42230 So. Avalon Blvd. AD 2-9497 / Los Angeles, Calif.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

photographs

Names

Mills, Billy G., 1929-
Miller, Loren
English, Eula Mae Jordan, b. 1922

Subject Geographic

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Longitude

33.961416

Latitude

-118.278281

Resource type

still image

Subjects

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