Mayor Fletcher Bowron proclaims Negro History Week in Los Angeles (Calif.)

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Title: Mayor Fletcher Bowron proclaims Negro History Week in Los Angeles (Calif.)
Date Created: Feb 1950
Date: 1950-02
Publisher: Los Angeles Daily News
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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Description: Los Angeles Mayor Fletcher Bowron, in the presence of the Reverend Baxter Duke, Evangeline Woodfolk, and Vassie D. Wright, proclaims the first official celebration of Negro History Week (precursor to African American History Month) in Los Angeles.

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Extent: 1 photograph

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Genre: news photographs
Names: Duke, Baxter
Resource type: still image
Subjects: People
Events
Government
African American History Month--California--Los Angeles

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