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Title
Muslim leader calls Yorty liar at rally
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Goldwater, Jeff
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1962
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.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph article dated May 21, 1962 partially reads, "Black Muslim leader Malcolm X denounced Mayor Samuel W. Yorty as a 'professional liar' Sunday in Los Angeles and called on a cheering Negro crowd to 'come together against the common enemy.' Flanked by the well-dressed, grim-faced suspects of the April 27 Muslim-police clash, Mr. X said: 'Remember all of us are black. It's not a Muslim fight - it's a black man's fight. We're all catching hell from the same white men and we must get them off our back.'" Photograph was taken at Park Manor Auditorium, 607 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles. Malcolm X is shown indicating wound the unidentified man suffered after the clash between police officers and the Muslim men.; See image #00127768 for additional photo in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00127769
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d033_f17_i22
CARL0005457454
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/59705
Subject
X, Malcolm,--1925-1965
Nation of Islam (Chicago, Ill.)
Park Manor Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Black Muslims--California--Los Angeles
African American civil rights workers--United States
African American political activists--United States
African Americans--Civil rights--United States
Auditoriums--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Public speaking--California--Los Angeles
Podiums--California--Los Angeles
Microphones
Valley Times Collection photographs

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