American Legion Department Convention at the Civic Auditorium Convention Hall, San Francisco, 1946

Title: American Legion Department Convention at the Civic Auditorium Convention Hall, San Francisco, 1946
Alternative title: American Legion Department Convention
Date Created: August 31-September 3, 1946
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Description: Arthur R. McClanahan was a policeman, a bailiff and a member of the American Legion.
Fred Whiteman was a member of the American Legion and a post was named after him.
Photograph of nineteen African American members of the American Legion, wearing garrison caps and some wearing military jackets, seated in an auditorium during a convention in San Francisco.
Ford M. White was a member of the Los Angeles Fire Department.
J. Rodney Smith was the publisher of The News.
Ben Lawrence was a veteran, a member of the American Legion, and a plastering contractor.
Caption: Written on back of photo: Visitor's Day, August 31, 1940, Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, Calif. Citizens Military Training Camp. From left: J. T. Green, Chas. H. Matthews, Norman O. Houston, Baxter S. Scruggs, Major Edward York, Major Milton T. Dean, Col. Louis A. Carter, Major Hal G. Franberry, Lieut. R. E. Gallagher, Lieut. Col. R. A. Dansmore and Wesley Russell.

Genre: photographs
Subject topic: Congresses and conventions
African American veterans
Names: Smith, Paul
Huntenn, Jess
Fodison, James K., 1897-1971
Whitaker, Fred, b. 1894
Smith, J. Rodney (James Rodney)
Moody, Augustus O., 1896-1952
Bryant, Romeo, 1892-1969
Lawrence, Ben, b. 1890 or 91
American Legion. Department of California
Whiteman, Fred R. (Frederick Roscoe), 1893-1953
McClanahan, Arthur R. (Arthur Rowe), 1889-1963
Wyatt, De Soto, 1893-1952
White, Ford M. (Ford Marlin), 1898-1967
Williams, Dave
Hubert, Jerome L. (Jerome Lewis), Sr., 1894-1989
Greene, Henry
Holmes, Leslie
Adams, George
Subject geographic: San Francisco (Calif.)
Resource type: still image