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Title
Watts Writers' Workshop
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1968
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
A crowd of 5,000 has gathered to hear Senator Kennedy at the Watts Writers' Workshop on March 26, 1968. The creative workshop rose from the ashes of the 1965 Watts Riots. Kennedy proclaimed he wanted "violence and hatred replaced by jobs. I want bitterness replaced in this county."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00128072
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2098
CARL0005503015
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/34389
Subject
Kennedy, Robert F.,--1925-1968
Legislators--United States
Public speaking--California--Los Angeles
Political campaigns--California--Los Angeles
Podiums--California--Los Angeles
Microphones
Men--California--Los Angeles
Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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