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Title: Anti-housing demonstration
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Some 200 residents of the El Sereno area, including many children, staged a demonstration May 17, 1952, against the $110,000,000 Los Angeles public housing program, Proposition B on the June 3 ballot. The demonstrators, clad in garden clothes and carrying hoes and rakes, called themselves "The Grass Roots Real Estate Lobby."
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041412
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 10235.
CARL0000045193
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12998
Subject: Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, California
Housing--California--El Sereno (Los Angeles)
Picketing--California--El Sereno (Los Angeles)
El Sereno (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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