Police officers Kenneth (Kenny) Harris and Red Davis, Los Angeles, 1940s

Title: Police officers Kenneth (Kenny) Harris and Red Davis, Los Angeles, 1940s
Date Created: [1940s?]
Date: 1940/1949
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Summary: 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.
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. Davis and Kenneth (Kenny) Harris attended Wadsworth Elementary school together, and remained friends; as adults they were partners on the police force for many years.
Description: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Kenneth Harris is 2nd from the left, and Red Davis is 3rd from the left. The others in the photo are unidentified.

Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Names: Harris, Kenneth
Davis, Red, b. 14 or 15
Location: California--Los Angeles
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Legal
People; African American police--California--Los Angeles
Police--California--Los Angeles

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
Local Identifier: YRLSC_gordonphotos_0761
Collection 1867 Box 6 Folder 3
761
ARK: ark:/21198/zz0025pw37
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