Police officers (including Tom Bradley) from the Newton St. Police Station, Los Angeles

Item Overview

Title

Police officers (including Tom Bradley) from the Newton St. Police Station, Los Angeles

Date Created

[1940s?]

Date

1940/1949

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Notes

Summary

Red (Tom or Tommy) Davis was a well known police officer and athlete on the east side of Los Angeles. Davis was a champion baseball and basketball player at Jefferson, and also played in the Negro leagues during the Depression; later he was the police handball champion 12 times over.
Kenneth Harris was a well known police officer and athlete on the east side of Los Angeles. Harris and Red Davis attended Wadsworth Elementary school together, and remained friends; as adults they were partners on the police force for many years.
Thomas J. "Tom" Bradley was the 38th Mayor of Los Angeles, serving from 1973 to 1993. He has been the only African-American mayor of Los Angeles, and his 20 years in office mark the longest tenure by any mayor in the city's history.

Description

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Members of the police baseball team, The Saints, posing for a team photo. In the back row, third from the left, is Tom Bradley. Back row, third from the right, is Red Davis. In the front row, far left, is a man with the last name Green, who later became a judge. Second from the left is Kenneth (Kenny) Harris. The other men in the photograph are unidentified.

Caption

Inscription: "To Mr. Gordon, Thanks For Everything, The Saints"

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph : b&w

Keywords

Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Names

Harris, Kenneth
Bradley, Tom, 1917-1998
Davis, Red, b. 14 or 15

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Legal

African American police--California--Los Angeles
African American baseball players--California--Los Angeles