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.; Gilbert Lindsay (1900-1990) was born on a cotton plantation in Mississippi where he later picked cotton for 50 cents a day. In 1928, he moved to Los Angeles and became a janitor for the Department of water & Power. By 1963, at the age of 62, Lindsay became the first African American to join the City Council. Appointed to fill a vacancy, he was reelected consistently until his death in 1990.; Vikki Carr, born Florencia Vicenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona, graduated from Rosemead High School in Rosemead, California in 1958 and four years later, in 1962, signed with Liberty Records under the stage name of "Vikki Carr". Throughout her long and illustrious career, Ms. Carr has won three Grammys, was named "Woman of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times, has been honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Latin Grammy Awards, has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and has achieved the rare feat of singing for five sitting presidents during her career: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton. Renowned singer Vikki Carr is pictured smiling and shaking hands with City Council Member Gilbert Lindsay at the podium in City Council chambers. Councilman Art Snyder (in profile) can be seen with two unidentified men in the background. The reason for Ms. Carr's attendance to Los Angeles City Hall is unknown and no further information has been provided. Photograph circa 1968. See images 00053452; 00128947 through 00128952; and 00143662 through 00143667 for additional photos in this series.
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Carr, Vikki Lindsay, Gilbert Snyder, Art Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.) Women African American men Men Celebrities Singers African American politicians Politicians City council members City halls Podiums Microphones Handshaking Smiling Los Angeles (Calif.)
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