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Group of African Americans and supporters at train station to meet Walter White, National President of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Included are Assemblyman Fred Roberts (6th from left), Betty Hill (4th from left), Dr. Summerville (7th from left), Judge Thomas Griffith (10th from left), Rev. Ernest E. Lightner (11th from left), Walter White (center, 12th from left), Clarence Muse (7th from right), Dr. Claude Hudson (5th from left), Lloyd Beavers (3rd from right), C.G. Robinson (2nd from right).
Beavers, Lloyd Griffith, Thomas Hill, Betty Hudson, Claude Lightner, Ernest E Muse, Clarence Roberts, Fred Robinson, C. G White, Walter Railroad stations--California--Los Angeles Women--California--Los Angeles Shades of L.A. Collection photographs Shades of L.A. African American photographs
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