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Title
Man vs. "the Machine" : Ray Thompson's fight for democracy in Oakland
Contributor
Turner, Steve (Art dealer)
Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
Date Created and/or Issued
1947?
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Steve Turner Collection of African-Americana
Rights Information
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Description
Concerns the case of Ray Thompson, an African American man arrested on June 25, 1947 on a charge of fraudulent voting soon after he appeared before the Oakland City Council to protest police brutality
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Text
Panel title
"Ray Thompson headed the Shipyard Worker's Committee against Discrimination ...Ray recently helped to organzie an East Bay chapter of the National Negro Congress"
Oakland, Calif. :, Civil Rights Congress
Type
text
Format
1 sheet ([6] panels] : portrait ; sheet 21 x 36 cm, folded to 21 x 11 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb04184387
Language
English
Subject
Police brutality
African Americans
African American political activists
African Americans--Civil rights
Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Oakland (Calif.)
Thompson, Ray, 1905 Aug. 25-
Place
San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
Oakland (Calif.)

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