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Charlotta Bass boarding a train en route to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, 1952 (?)

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Title: Charlotta Bass boarding a train en route to Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, 1952 (?)
Alternative Title: Charlotta Bass, Vice Presidential nominee
Contributor: Jackson, Vera, 1911-1999
Date Created and/or Issued: 1952
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Vera Ruth Jackson was a "pioneer woman photographer in the black press". She photographed African-American social life and celebrity culture in 1930s and 1940s Los Angeles. [Wikipedia]
Charlotta Bass stands on the steps of a train car ready to board, probably during her 1952 Progressive Party campaign for Vice-President with Vincent Hallinan.
Charlotta Bass was the publisher of the California Eagle newspaper from 1912 to 1951, and a civil rights activist. The California Eagle, covering Los Angeles' African-American community, was one of the oldest and longest running African American newspapers.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b06_f04_002a.tif
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Subject: Arrivals and departures (American)
African American politicians
Women in politics
Progressivism (United States politics)
Political campaigns
Bass, Charlotta A., 1880-1969
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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