Genre: clippings (information artifacts) / Location: California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: One story describes the firing of Jerome E. Golden from the Los Angeles Post Office following an investigation into whether or not he was affiliated with the Communist Party. The other story concerns attorney Daniel G. Marshall's petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the Los Angeles Bar Association's segregation policy.
Date:: Feb. 26, 1949
Resource Type:: text
still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: Newspaper article by Leonard Feather--most likely an obituary of Barney Bigard-- and entitled "Only 2 Bands in More than 2 Decades."
Date:: 1980
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: December 7, 1985
Resource Type:: text
still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: Collection of approximately 800 digitized photographs and other items collected by Walter L. Gordon, Jr. and given to William C. Beverly, Jr., who donated the collection to UCLA. Collection includes photos given to Walter by his former boss, Charlotta Bass, publisher of the California Eagle, as well as other photos he collected. Photos largely depict African American social life and family life in 1940s Los Angeles and feature celebrities, athletes, politicians, lawyers, and other notable people of the era.
Date:: 1940s

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