Pepperdine University Libraries Malibu Historical Photograph Collection [digital resource], Pepperdine University Special Collections and University Archives
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On July 24, 1946 a caravan of 35 taxi drivers--all war veterans--headed from Los Angeles to Sacramento to ask Governor Warren and the state legislature to take action against discrimination and harassment against veterans seeking to operate cabs in the Los Angeles Harbor area. The Harbor War Veterans Transportation Association claimed that their cab drivers were being forced out of the area by the two existing cab franchises through the collusion of local city government. In this photograph, the caravan passed down a wide boulevard of an unidentified town. complete;
Malibu Times Photographs 0112: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84t6m2n Black and white photographic print, 8 x 10 inches; Malibu Times Photographs: Box 10: Structures and Landscapes (Miscellaneous)
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