Maurice Dawkins (standing, left), Lorenzo Bowdoin (seated, left) and two men watch as a woman and another man holds a piece of paper, perhaps an award. Lorenzo Bowdoin was a Los Angeles businessman, civic leader, philanthropist and NAACP leader. One of the first three black clerks hired by the Los Angeles Post Office in 1906, he worked there for 38 years and improved hiring and promotion policies for blacks. He was one of the organizers of Angelus Mortuary (1925) and was the treasurer for many years. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Haitian Coffee Co. He was active in many civic organizations including the Metropolitan YMCA. Reverend Maurice A. Dawkins was a pastor of the Peoples Independent Church of Christ. He was also president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and was active in the Urban League, the Congress of Racial Equality, and served as the western regional organizer for the March on Washington, D.C.
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African American philanthropists African American civic leaders African American businesspeople Dawkins, Maurice A. (Maurice Anderson), 1921-2001 Bowdoin, Lorenzo, 1886-1972
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