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Title
All American Indian Week Resolution
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Curtis, Rolland J
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1967
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.
Rolland Joseph 'Speedy' Curtis was born in Louisiana in 1922. After serving three years in the Marines during World War II, he and his wife, Gloria, relocated from New Orleans to Los Angeles in 1946. Curtis served four years with the Los Angeles Police Department, but resigned from the force in order to pursue both a Bachelor's and Master's degree from USC. He later became involved in city politics, as an associate of Sam Yorty, and later a field deputy to City Council members Billy Mills and Tom Bradley. He was briefly director of the Model Cities program in 1973. Rolland J. Curtis died in his home in 1979, the victim of a homicide. An affordable housing complex on Exposition Blvd. near Vermont Ave. was named in his honor in 1981, along with a nearby street and park.
George Pierre, Chief of the Nez Perce tribe, accepts a proclamation for All American Indian Week, held by Councilman Billy Mills in the gray suit on the right. Also on hand are other unidentified Native Americans in full dress and several school children surrounding them, as well as three men just off camera at top. Photograph dated October 5, 1967. See images 00119238 and 00119317 through 00119328 for additional photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 negative : safety ; 10 x 13 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00119322
Rolland J. Curtis Collection
RC_0031.06
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/136403
Subject
Pierre, George
Mills, Billy G
Native Americans--Clothing
Headdresses
Feathers
City council members
Proclamations
Children
Girls
Boys
African American men
Men
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Time Period
1960-1969

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