Photograph caption dated September 9, 1989 reads, "Mothers from a Watts housing project picketed Motown Records yesterday to urge black entertainers and athletes to help keep children off drugs and out of gangs. A Motown spokesman said later he knew nothing of the protest or CaShears, an entertainer who reportedly organized the mothers."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 34 cm. on sheet 28 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Motown Record Corporation--Protest movements Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles Protest movements--California--Los Angeles Mothers--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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