A supervisor looks on as young boys from the Watts Labor Community Action Committee shove mud from Fern Dell Creek. Photo caption reads: "Youth Corps boys remove mud from one of 20 pools in Griffith Park nature area. All pools will be cleaned by end of summer". Photo dated: Jul. 10, 1970.
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