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Title
Atwater Park Center receives resolution
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Curtis, Rolland J
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1968
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.
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Description
Title supplied by cataloger.; In the 1960s, 'mental retardation' was a medical term used to describe a person with an intellectual disability. However, the term 'mental retardation' has offensive connotations, and reinforces negative stereotypes. In October 2010, Congress passed Rosa's Law, which changed references to 'mental retardation' in specified Federal laws to 'intellectual disability,' and references to 'a mentally retarded individual' to 'an individual with an intellectual disability.' The description in this record retains the original language to provide context, and provides the subject heading 'intellectual disability' out of respect for intellectually disabled persons, as well as for search purposes.
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.
Pictured is City Councilman Art Snyder at a microphoned podium presenting a resolution to an unidentified member of the Artwater Park Center for the Mentally Retarded, who stands with a young girl, presumably from the Artwater Park Center. A few spectators can be seen in the background. Photograph dated September 5, 1968. See images 00119484, 00119485 and 00138054 through 00138059 for additional photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00138058
Rolland J. Curtis Collection
RC_0055.07
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/136205
Subject
Snyder, Art
Los Angeles City Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Resolutions
City council members
Microphone
Podiums
Spectators
City halls
Intellectual disability
Girls
Women
Men
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Time Period
1960-1969

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