Floyd C. Covington, executive director of the Los Angeles Urban League, 1940s
Item Overview
- Title
- Floyd C. Covington, executive director of the Los Angeles Urban League, 1940s
- Date Created
- [1940s?]
- Date
- 1940/1949
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Notes
- Summary
- In the 1930s, Floyd C. Covington was a social worker, and later became the executive director of the Los Angeles branch of the National Urban League from 1931-1950; later he was the racial relations advisor with the Federal Housing Administration from 1950-1975. He was known as an important civic leader in Los Angeles, a "go to" guy.
- Description
- All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
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Black-and-white photographs
Portrait photographs - Names
- Covington, Floyd C., 1901-1989
- Location
- California--Los Angeles
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- People
- Community activists--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
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Collection 1867 Box 3 Folder 2
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0446 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025phwt
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted