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Title
Willie Mays Beef--Difficulty Buying House
Date Created and/or Issued
1957-11-14
1957-11-14 (November 14, 1957)
Publication Information
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, Phone: (510) 642-6481, Fax: (510) 642-7589, Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu, URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
San Francisco Call Bulletin (Firm)
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
San Francisco News-Call Bulletin Newspaper Photograph Archive
Rights Information
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Description
Baseball player Willie Mays being interviewed, and view of house he was prevented from buying because of race (race relations, African Americans, civil rights). Taken at 2251 Moraga Street and 175 Miraloma Drive. Willie Mays signing home sale agreement with wife, attorney Terry A. Francois, and owner Walter A. Gnesdiloff [sic]. Taken at 2251 Moraga Street. Television cameras and interview with Walter A. Genesdiloff [sic], builder of the house in dispute. Also present is Edward Howden (director of Council for Civic Unity). Taken at 266(?) Magellan Ave. [Only selected images have been digitized.]
Type
image
Format
15 negatives (10 selected for digitzation)
Form/Genre
Photographs
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb0v19n7cb
BANC PIC 1959.010--NEG, Part 3, Box 114, [11-14-57.01-03]
Language
English
Subject
African Americans--California--San Francisco Bay Area

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