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.; Elected in 1963, Billy G. Mills (1929-) was the third African American to serve on the Los Angeles City Council, a seat he held until 1974 when he became a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. He was the first African American chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee, winning over fellow Councilman Tom Bradley by just three votes.; Maggie Mae Hathaway was an American activist for civil and equal rights, blues singer, actress, sports writer and golfer. She began her career as an actress before venturing into recording in Los Angeles where she released a few singles. Hathaway became known in the 1950s for her activism and golfing. She often fought hard and long for the rights and inclusion of people of color, not only in entertainment, but in the community, and even in sports, specifically golf. She has a golf course named in her honor in Los Angeles, California. She was the founder of the NAACP Image Awards and she was a writer for the Los Angeles Sentinel. Councilmember Billy Mills is shown posing with Maggie Hathaway, local activist and golf columnist for the Los Angeles Sentinel newspaper, outside of City Hall. Ms. Hathaway had organized a gathering of parents of youths involved in the Head Start program, administered by the Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency of Greater Los Angeles (EYOA). Photograph dated 1967. See images 00125518, and 00142727 through 00141732 for additional photos in this series.
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1 negative : safety ; 10 x 13 cm. Photographic safety negatives
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