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Title
Letter, 1953 May 15, Los Angeles, Calif. to Councilman Edward R. Roybal, City Hall, Los Angeles, Calif
Creator
Gonzales, Charles, Correspondent
Contributor
Gonzales, Charles, Correspondent
Date Created and/or Issued
May 15, 1953
1953-05-15
Publication Information
Dept of Special Collections/UCLA Library, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, 405 Hilgard Ave, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575; http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
Published in: Los Angeles, Calif
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Roybal (Edward R.) papers
Rights Information
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
UC Regents
Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, U.C. Los Angeles
Description
A citizen takes issue with the fact that on the driving citation he received the police officer wrote "Mex" for Mexican under race. Mexican is not a race and he felt that he was being singled out
The second page is a copy of the driving citation the correspondent refers to
Image produced from digital copy of original document with personal information removed
Digital copy
Type
text
Format
2 p. ; 28 x 22 cm
Form/Genre
letters (correspondence)
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb4779p111
uclamsss_847_b10_fDis1_1
Language
English
Subject
Racism
Mexican Americans--Civil rights
Roybal, Edward Ross, 1916-
Place
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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