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.
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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