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Title: Mayor proclaims Negro history week
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1966
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Mayor Samuel Yorty issues proclamation designating Feb. 12-20 as Negro History Week (later renamed Black History Week). From left: Jesse Overstreet; Mrs. Vassie D. Wright; Yorty and Mrs. Leontyne King, library commissioner. Dated February 12, 1966.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00058185
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 8050
CARL0000061159
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22781
Subject: Overstreet, Jesse
Wright, Vassie D
King, Leontyne B
Yorty, Sam,--1909-1998
Black History Week
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Proclamations
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1961-1970

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