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Title
Leon Aubry, Jr. at graduation
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
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.
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 in the middle is Leon Aubry, Jr. shaking hands with his father Leon Aubry, Sr. as his mother, Sally Aubry stands to the right of him, smiling at his high school graduation; the woman partially visible on extreme right has not been identified. Aubry, Sr. was a longtime community activist and barbershop proprietor who was also known as “the mayor of Jefferson Boulevard”. Photograph circa 1965. See images 00119488 through 00119494 for additional photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 negative : safety ; 10 x 13 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier
00119494
Rolland J. Curtis Collection
RC_0057.07
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/135963
Subject
Aubry, Leon, Jr
Aubry, Leon, Sr
African American families
High schools
High school students
High school graduates
African American young men
African American men
African American women
African American political activists
Businessmen
Barbers
Families
Husband and wife
Women
Young men
Men
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Time Period
1960-1969

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