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Title: Charlotta Bass during her vice-presidential campaign, Los Angeles (?), 1952
Alternative Title: Charlotta Bass, other political activities
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: 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.
Charlotta Bass speaking to an unidentified man during her campaign for vice-president in 1952. They appear be on a train. She was a Progressive Party candidate.
Photo: Southern California library for Social Studies & Research, Inc.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b06_f05_003.tif
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Subject: 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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