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Pan American Day celebration

Description:: Photographed from left to right are Jorge Maroto, Manuel Aguilar, Mayor Fletcher Bowron, and Gabriela Mistral.
Date:: April 14, 1946
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

Street scene in Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, 1950

Description:: Street scene of the Mexican American community Chavez Ravine. located near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium.
Date:: 1950
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

Japanese return from internment camps

Description:: Japanese Americans and Japanese nationals returning to Los Angeles after wartime internment in Heart Mountain, Colorado unload their belongings from a passenger train.
Date:: November 5, 1945
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

Art Aragon, portrait

Date:: ca. 1950
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

Raid on a Chinese lottery

Description:: Police officers raid a Chinese American lottery.
Date:: 1938
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

Simon Rodia and his Watts Towers, portrait

Description:: Italian American immigrant Simon Rodia poses with his artistic creation, popularly known as the Watts Towers, in the background.
Date:: ca. 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Richard Gonzales plays a tennis match

Description:: Mexican American tennis player Richard "Pancho" Gonzales returns service in a Los Angeles tennis tournament.
Date:: ca. 1950
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

Mexican Independence Day celebration, 1938

Description:: Mexican Independence Day is celebrated in Los Angeles with dancing, music, and stage performances
Date:: September 16, 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Gus Arriola poses with admirers

Description:: Gus Arriola, artist and creator of the "Gordo" cartoon series, poses with some admirers.
Date:: 1946
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

Paul Robeson and Charlotta Bass, circa 1949

Description:: Actor, singer, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson speaks with fellow activist and California Eagle editor and publisher Charlotta Bass.
Date:: [circa 1949]
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

Street scene in Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, 1947

Description:: Dodger Stadium, in a controversial eminent domain decision enforced by local and state authorities
Date:: 1947
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

Undocumented Mexican workers await deportation, Los Angeles, 1954

Description:: Undocumented Mexican workers (identified as "wetbacks" in a handwritten notation on the negative) await deportation by U.S. authorities to Mexico.
Date:: 1954
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

Joseph Salvatore "Sparky" Saldana, newspaperman and press agent, 1949

Description:: Joseph "Sparky" Saldana, city editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, sits at his desk.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Hillside view of Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles

Description:: Hillside view of the Mexican American community Chavez Ravine, near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
Date:: ca. 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Satchel Paige, portrait

Description:: Leroy "Satchel" Paige, a successful player in the Negro Leagues from 1926-1947 before he signed with the Cleveland Indians as the second African American player in the majors, reclines in a chair.
Date:: 1954
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

Adoptions in Los Angeles, California

Description:: New adoptions in the city of Los Angeles
Date:: ca. 1952
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

Demonstrators rest during a discriminatory housing protest, Los Angeles, 1945

Description:: Paulette Fears and Dolores Laws rest inside the 92nd Street home of Henry Laws while picketers demonstrate against discriminatory housing and restrictive convenant laws outside.
Date:: 1945
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

Mexican American women prepare food for flood victims

Description:: Mexican American women prepare tortillas at the American Legion post in Placenta during the flood emergency
Date:: 1938
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

View under bridge towards Chavez Ravine's "Lil' Town", Los Angeles, 1950

Description:: A bridge overpass has been painted with the words "Lil' Town" the Mexican American community of Chavez Ravine near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium lies beyond.
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Bus terminal in Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, 1946

Description:: Residents of the Mexican American community of Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium, wait at a local bus terminal.
Date:: 1946
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

Undocumented Mexican workers board buses for deportation, Los Angeles, 1954

Description:: Undocumented Mexican workers (identified as "wetbacks" in a handwritten notation on the negative) prepare to board deportation buses at the Elysian Park bus depot in Los Angeles, California.
Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Hillside view of Chavez Ravine

Description:: View of the Mexican American community Chavez Ravine, near present day Elysian Park and Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, from a nearby hillside.
Date:: ca. 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Paul Younger's military physical exam

Description:: Paul "Tank" Younger, Los Angeles Rams football player, endures a physical exam as a prerequisite of military service.
Date:: ca. 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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