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Description:: Stan Chambers reports from the Gay Community Services Center, where an open house is underway to celebrate the center's opening. Executive Director of the center, Steve Schulte, discusses the center's role as a human services agency where they have a clinic and 13 programs to assist members of the gay community with issues ranging from employment to alcohol abuse. The facility is also meant to serve as a community center for gay men and lesbians in Los Angeles. City Councilman Zev Yaroslovsky pledges the city's commitment to the center and the gay community and notes that resistance to such support still exists but is waning. He also participates in a ribbon cutting. Clip includes footage of the exterior and people attending the event.
Date:: [1979-09-14]
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection

Description:: In a press conference at the Greater LA Press Club, leaders from Black and Jewish organizations criticize the leadership of the Los Angeles School Board and its recent actions that have negatively impacted efforts related to integration and busing. The speakers emphasize the need for quality, integrated public education and improved leadership from the Los Angeles School Board to counter resistance to busing. One of the speakers on the panel is John Mack, President of the Los Angeles chapter of the Urban League.
Date:: [1980-10-15]
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection

Description:: Reporter Stan Chambers is at Evergreen Elementary in East Los Angeles to cover a new project in which children from Pinewood Elementary in Tujunga have been bused to Evergreen to attend class. Some students in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades will spend half the year at one school and half the year at the other. Chambers interviewed Principal Lloyd Johnson about preparations for the project and interviews several children on the playground about their day. Footage includes classroom and playground scenes and some segments featuring only the reporter's voiceover (no picture).
Date:: [1978-09-12]
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection

Description:: Al Williams of the Los Angeles Police Department explains how the protection racket works, and that it has been successful because the business owners are afraid of gang reprisals against their businesses or families if they contact police. He credits two Chinese officers who live in the community with gathering evidence that has led to the indictments of some gang members and he expects more to follow. Williams also touches on the assimilation problems some Chinese immigrants face that limit their opportunities and may lead them to join gangs. Includes silent footage featuring numerous shots of storefronts in Chinatown’s central plaza.
Date:: [1978-04-14]
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection

Description:: Two formerly incarcerated women talk to a reporter about the lack of meaningful rehabilitation programs to adequately prepare them for life after release from prison. An unidentified official is interviewed about the lack of work referral programs for women due to lack of facility space and acknowledges that such rehabilitation programs are available to men. Another unidentified interviewee, possibly an advocate for the incarcerated, states that California doesn't have any true rehabilitation programs. Includes shots of a prison facility, prison cell, and incarcerated women sitting at a table watching television
Date:: [1974-09-24]
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection

Description:: Stan Chambers interviews Ramona Ripston of the ACLU about reports of harassment by police officers against gay individuals due to their sexual orientation. The ACLU is distributing forms to help them investigate, and if the evidence backs up their belief of widespread harassment they will make a presentation to the Police Commission. She also talks about the resignation of Chief Davis who openly stated he did not want gay people in the police department, how that ideology has filtered down through the department and that it will take time and effort to bring about changes.
Date:: [1978-01-12]
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection

Description:: Demonstrators carry signs like "Why save murals? Save children" and chant "We need gas now" as construction workers carefully move a mural. The head teacher from Center de Niños, which has 60 plus children, explains that they have been without gas for six months after it was turned off to fix a leak. The line has long since been repaired and no one is responding to their inquiries about getting it turned back on.
Date:: [1976-01-07]
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection

Description:: Reporter Stan Chambers covers a hunger strike held by Vietnamese Americans who want the Thai government to end the inhumane treatment and economic exploitation of Vietnamese refugees (also referred to as "boat people") in the South China Sea.
Date:: [1980-05-09]
Resource Type:: moving image
Collection:: Diverse Communities of Los Angeles (1970-1980) - KTLA Television Newsfilm Collection

Description:: The film “Power for the Highlands” is about the possibilities of Hydro-Electric power for the Highlands.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
moving image
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

Description:: Close-up of engineer in train car wearing a tweed jacket with a shirt and necktie
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: moving image
Photographer:: Suschitzky, Wolfgang
Collection:: Rotha (Paul) Papers, 1914-1980

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