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Title
Margaret Thurmond, founder of RIPOFF
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Sergieff, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued
1977
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Margaret Thurmond, founder of Rent Increase Protest Organization for Fairness (RIPOFF). Fed up with skyrocketing rents, Thurmond, a Westwood tenant, founded the organization to protest and to act as a consumer hotline for tenants involved in landlord disputes. Photograph dated July 8, 1977.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00049828
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9858.
CARL0000053870
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18426
Subject
Housing--California--Los Angeles
Rent control--California--Los Angeles
Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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