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Parade for the presidential campaign of Taft featuring over 20 elephants, Los Angeles, 1908

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Title: Parade for the presidential campaign of Taft featuring over 20 elephants, Los Angeles, 1908
Alternative Title: Parades in Early Black Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: [1908]
1908
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: In 1908 William Howard Taft ran successfully for president with running mate James S. Sherman.
African American men carrying picket signs on a street corner. Signs read "If good enough to fight together, why not to work together," "Jim Crow must Go!," "American youth wants Democracy [...]" One man holds a folded newspaper with partial headlines reading "[...]pper attacks [...] Lindenberg"
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b17_f08_002.tif
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Subject: Parades & processions
Presidential campaigns
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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