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Title: Racial incidents may slow 'de facto' segregation unit
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Goldwater, Jeff
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1962
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: Photograph included in the exhibit: "From Hula Hoops to Hanoi: L.A. Concerns, 1954-1965."
Students attempt to transfer to all-white Huntington Park school, out of their home district, in an effort to put pressure on the Los Angeles Board of Education. Seen are Beverly Burnett and Olivia Gill, with Rev. C. W. Arnold. Photograph caption dated September 14, 1962 reads, "Negroes attempt to transfer to Huntington Park School."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 25 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00082783
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d058_f35_i4; H-22131.4 4x5
CARL0000025201
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41742
Subject: Huntington Park High School (Huntington Park, Calif.)
School integration--California, Southern
High school students--California--Huntington Park
African Americans--Civil rights
Huntington Park (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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