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A.L. Wirin, George Ochikubo, and Saburo Kido representing the Japanese American Citizens League

Description:: A.L. Wirin and Saburo Kido filed a brief together in 1944 representing the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), in Korematsu v. United States. Ochikubo, a dentist, was the plaintiff in Ochikubo v. Bonesteel, a 1944 federal lawsuit challenging the Western Defense Command's continued exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Kido was an attorney and the wartime president of the JACL. Wirin was an ACLU attorney and chief counsel for the JACL during and after World War II.
Date:: ca. 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Authorities meet to discuss the Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:: Photographed left to right are Eugene Biscailuz (Los Angeles County Sheriff), Police Captain Thad Brown, Los Angeles District Attorney Fred N. Howser, and Carl Moritz.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Kenny Washington receives a football award

Description:: Professional football player and UCLA alum Kenny Washington recieves an award from his team, the Los Angeles Rams.
Date:: ca. 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boxing coach advises his athletes at an outdoor gymnasium, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:: Several boxers receive coaching advice during a practice at an outdoor gym at 28th and Central Avenues, Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican American male gang

Description:: Members of a suspected gang from Sleepy Lagoon, located in the present day city of Maywood, Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Father Divine's Peace Mission and Truth Center expansion, Los Angeles (Calif.), 1930's

Description:: Hotel property at 4611 Compton Avenue purchased to be used as a "heaven, " or "Peace Mission and Truth Center" for Father Divine's International Peace Mission movement. Father Divine, also known as Reverend M.J. Divine was a controversial African American spiritual leader from 1907-1965. He founded the International Peace Mission movement and claimed to be God
Date:: ca. 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Raising the American flag for a Cinco de Mayo celebration

Description:: Mexican consul Rudolpho Salazar raises the flag in the Los Angeles Coliseum for the Cinco de Mayo celebration.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Joe Louis in the boxing ring

Description:: Joe Louis in the boxing ring before a fight.
Date:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Zoot Suit Riots

Description:: Violence erupts during the Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles (Calif.).
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Selling newspapers in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1941

Description:: A newspaperman sells Rafu Shinbun's December 7, 1941 papers on the streets of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. The papers report the news of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Habor in Hawaii.
Date:: December 7, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Costumes for a fiesta on Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 1953

Description:: Anita Aros (center) poses with other costumed actors as they prepare for a fiesta on Olvera Street in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: ca. 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Luis Verdusco, seated portrait

Description:: Los Angeles resident Luis Verdusco points to a head injury sustained during the Zoot Suit Riots.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1941

Description:: A Japanese American man and his children cross the street in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, on the day of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Habor.
Date:: December 7, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Inquest of the death of Faustino Sanchez

Description:: A crowd assembles at the inquest of the death of Faustino Sanchez.
Date:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notice for alien enemy prohibited territory no. 30

Description:: Notice posted to warn Japanese, German, and Italian immigrants and aliens that they must remove from area no. 30 by February 15, 1942. Notice was sponsored by the Department of Defense and Attorney General Francis Biddle.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese immigrants register as Los Angeles residents, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:: Japanese immigrants and aliens queue up to register as Los Angeles residents under the Alien Registration Act of 1940 at the United States Post Office at 22nd and San Pedro Street.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Roy Wilkins speaks at an NAACP convention, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, addresses delegates at the annual convention held in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: ca. 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wartime housing in Little Tokyo's Bronzeville, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:: Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed "Bronzeville" during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Belvedere Grammar School play, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Date:: ca. 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Telles family at the Sleepy Lagoon murder case acquittal

Description:: After the murder and assault convictions of 17 Mexican American youths in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case, the Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee advocated for the defendants until the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convictions as a miscarriage of justice.
Date:: Oct 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Father Divine's Peace Mission and Truth Center, Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Hotel property at 4611 Compton Avenue purchased to be used as a "heaven, " or "Peace Mission and Truth Center" for Father Divine's International Peace Mission movement. Father Divine, also known as Reverend M.J. Divine was a controversial African American spiritual leader from 1907-1965. He founded the International Peace Mission movement and claimed to be God.
Date:: ca. 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Ransacked Japanese warehouse in Los Angeles (Calif.)

Description:: Two Japanese Americans survey the damage to a ransacked warehouse and work area
Date:: circa 1944
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Woodrow Wilson Strode registers for military service

Description:: Woodrow Wilson Strode registers for compulsory military service under the watchful eye of Sarah B. Parker.
Date:: ca. 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican American youths detained for questioning

Description:: Mexican American youths in "zoot suits" are detained in a Los Angeles jail for questioning following a brawl.
Date:: ca. 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Henry Leyvas, portrait

Description:: Henry Leyvas, age 20, was one of the defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boxer with his trainer at an outdoor gymnasium, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:: A boxer gets attention from a trainer at the outdoor gymnasium at 28th and Central Avenues in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wartime housing in a Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:: Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed "Bronzeville" during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Members of the Japanese American Citizens' League

Description:: Pictured left to right: Fred (Masaru) Tayama, Kay Sugahara, and Kei Matsumoto.
Date:: ca. 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

A.L. Wirin speaks to striking workers, Los Angeles, 1942

Date:: ca. 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Slim Gaillard, portrait

Description:: Slim Gaillard, jazz performer, vocalist, and guitarist, poses with his guitar.
Date:: ca. 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese nationals detained in a Los Angeles jail

Description:: Japanese nationals who have been arrested by the FBI are detained in a Los Angeles jail in preparation of their evacuation from Los Angeles.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Dancing the jitterbug

Description:: An African American couple dance the jitterbug in front of a crowd.
Date:: ca. 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican consuls

Description:: Photographed left to right are Manuel Aguilar and Rudolfo Salazar.
Date:: ca. 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Reading reports of the Pearl Harbor attacks in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1941

Description:: Two Little Tokyo residents read about the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor.
Date:: December 7, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mexican American youths detained for questioning

Description:: Mexican American youths in "zoot suits" are detained for questioning in a Los Angeles jail following a brawl.
Date:: ca. 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boxers practice in the ring at an outdoor gymnasium, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:: Boxers practice in the ring of an outdoor gymnasium at 28th and Central Avenues, Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Posting a sign regarding bus service to Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles

Description:: Chavez Ravine residents Louise Rosales and Tillie Molano watch as Louis M. Hernandez posts a sign for a meeting regarding bus service in Los Angeles.
Date:: circa 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Jesse Owens jumps over a hurdle, Los Angeles, 1930s

Description:: Ohio State University's Olympic track and field star Jesse Owens demonstrates his running style in Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Authorities meet to discuss the Zoot Suit Riots

Description:: Photographed left to right are Karl Holton, Director of the California Youth Authority Harold Slane Mrs. Lowell Bigelow Alan Cranston, and Manuel Ruiz, Jr., attorney.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Henry Leyvas, portrait

Description:: Henry Leyvas, age 20, was one of the defendants in the Sleepy Lagoon murder case.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1941

Description:: Little Tokyo residents pause on the street to read about the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor.
Date:: December 7, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Wartime housing in Little Tokyo's Bronzeville, Los Angeles, 1943

Description:: Little Tokyo in Los Angeles was dubbed "Bronzeville" during World War Two, as African American families and workers moved into the empty homes and businesses of the relocated Japanese American community.
Date:: 1943
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese submit personal property to the Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:: Japanese residents turn in their shortwave radios, guns, and cameras to the Los Angeles Police Department by the April 1, 1942 deadline.
Date:: ca. 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Street scene in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1941

Description:: A Little Tokyo business owner looks out onto the street on the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Habor in Hawaii.
Date:: December 7, 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Boxer selects his gloves at an outdoor gymnasium, Los Angeles, 1942

Description:: A boxer trains in the outdoor gymnasium at 28th and Central Avenues, Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Communion at Plaza Church, Los Angeles, 1942-1952

Description:: A woman takes Communion during a Plaza Church mass for the fiesta of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe.
Date:: [between 1942-1947]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Mayor Fletcher Bowron at a Nisei festival in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, 1940

Description:: "Nisei" are the second-generation Japanese Americans who founded the annual festival in 1934 to attract business to the Little Tokyo area and promote goodwill in Los Angeles.
Date:: 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Japanese nationals on a bus during evacuation and relocation

Description:: Japanese nationals, many of them women, on board a bus for evacuation and relocation from Los Angeles.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Demonstrator protests illegal raids by the Immigration Department, Los Angeles, 1940s

Description:: In downtown Los Angeles, a picketing demonstrator protests illegal raids by the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (referred to on her sign as the Immigration Department).
Date:: ca. 1940s
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Teenagers read a newspaper story on Japanese submarine casualties

Description:: Mexican American teenagers read a newspaper outside a courtroom door. The cover story headlines refer to American bombings of Japanese submarines. Photographed left to right are Ceilia Apareio, Rise Padilla, and Dan Aposo.
Date:: 1942
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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