Title supplied by cataloger. Rolland Joseph 'Speedy' Curtis was born in Louisiana in 1922. After serving three years in the Marines during World War II, he and his wife, Gloria, relocated from New Orleans to Los Angeles in 1946. Curtis served four years with the Los Angeles Police Department, but resigned from the force in order to pursue both a Bachelor's and Master's degree from USC. He later became involved in city politics, as an associate of Sam Yorty, and later a field deputy to City Council members Billy Mills and Tom Bradley. He was briefly director of the Model Cities program in 1973. Rolland J. Curtis died in his home in 1979, the victim of a homicide. An affordable housing complex on Exposition Blvd. near Vermont Ave. was named in his honor in 1981, along with a nearby street and park. Pictured L-R are future Los Angeles Assemblywoman candidate Louise Ridgle White (extreme left, second row), State Senator Pierre Salinger, City Councilman Billy Mills, actor Gene Berry, Ruth Cosgrove Berle and husband actor Milton Berle (pointing), State Senator Hubert Humphrey and wife Muriel Humphrey, and Bernice Brown (wife of Governor Edmund 'Pat' Brown) at an event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel hosted by the Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Foundation on December 10, 1964. Several other unidentified people can be seen in the back row. See images 00053384; 00118782; 00120479; 00128451, 00128452; and 00138699 through 00138705 for additional photos in this series.
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Salinger, Pierre Mills, Billy G Barry, Gene Berle, Milton Berle, Milton--Family Humphrey, Hubert H.--(Hubert Horatio),--1911-1978 Brown, Muriel Buck Humphrey Brown, Edmund G.--(Edmund Gerald),--1905-1996--Family Beverly Hilton Hotel (Beverly Hills, Calif.) City council members Legislators Politicians Politicians' spouses Motion picture actors and actresses Comedians Actors Entertainers African American women Women African American men Men Husband and wife Couples Smiling Laughter Pointing (Gesture) Beverly Hills (Calif.)
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