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. Unidentified teenage boys and girls, members of Canada's Portage Indian Residential School choir are shown with an unidentified male music director in City Hall Council chambers, on the occasion of receiving a Certificate of Appreciation. Photograph circa 1968. See images 00130235 through 00130239 for additional photos in this series.
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1 color negative : safety ; 10 x 13 cm. Photographic safety negatives
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.) Teenage girls Girls Teenage boys Boys Men Indian children Indians--Music Choirs (Music) School music Students Singers Award presentations Light fixtures Los Angeles (Calif.)
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