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Description
Photograph shows a group of African American men, most wearing fezzes, and some holding musical instruments, standing in a street in Tijuana, Mexico Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Still image "...setting up the first "Elks" lodge in the Republic of Mexico, at Tia Juana, Mexico, under the name of "Hidalgo Lodge" No. 597. By A.W.H." Title and date from typed caption on print "The Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW) was an inclusive fraternal order modeled on the the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks, from which African Americans were barred until 1973" --Cowan's Tijuana, Mexico
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; 17 x 22 cm
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb30802277
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Photographs Societies African American men Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World Tijuana (Baja California)
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