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.; Thomas Mankell Rees was born on March 26, 1925. He served in the California State Assembly and Senate. Rees introduced the bill in the state legislature which created the Southern California Rapid Transit District. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1965. Rees died in 2003.; Charles Herbert Wilson (1917-1984) served as a member of the California State Assembly from the 66th District from 1954-1962, and was elected to the United States House of Representatives where he served from 1963-1981. In June of 1980, Wilson was censured by the House of Representatives for financial misconduct. And later that same year, he was defeated in the Democratic primary election nomination to the 97th Congress by Mervyn M. Dymally. Wilson died on July 21, 1984 and is buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. Congressional District Representative Thomas Rees (at right) happily shakes hands with 31st District Representative Charles Wilson (D) in Rees' Congressional Office in Washington, D.C. Photograph circa 1965. See images 00119143 through 00119145 and 00137907 through 00137941 for additional photos in this series.
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1 negative : safety ; 10 x 13 cm. Photographic safety negatives
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