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Description
18 images. Los Angeles City Fire Commission hearing on segregation, 7 October 1954. Herbert Simmons, Junior Edward Carter Maddox Carl Earles Jack Tenner Doctor H.C. Hudson Robert A. Day (Fire Commission member) W.H. Lollier, Vice President, Fire Commission C.F. Joscelyn Attorney Richard K. Yeamans, President of the Commission) Fire Chief John H. Alderson Attorney Thomas G. Neusom. Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Miller. Reporter: Dunn. Date: 10-07. Assignment: Fire Commission hearing on segregation. -- Fire commissioners enter room, headed by W.H. Lollier, vice president. -- l to r: C.F. Joscelyn, W.H. Lollier, Atty. Richard K. Yeamans, president of commission and Robert A. Day. -- Fire Chief John H. Alderson enter hearing room. -- Atty. Jack Tenner speaking, with Attys. Thomas G. Neusom in foreground. l to r: Dr. H.C. Hudson Attys. Jack Tenner and Herbert Simmons, Jr., representing the NAACP. -- Robert A. Day alone, a member of fire commission. -- C.F. Joscelyn alone, a member of fire commission. -- General view of crowded hearing room, with off-duty firemen. 47: Herbert Simmons Jr. Dr. H. Claude Hudson. 101: Edward Carter Maddox Herbert Simmons Jr. John H, Alderson".
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image
Format
18 photographs : negatives, b&w 13 x 10 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
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