Charlotta Bass seated at a desk with a book of bound newspaper pages with an unidentified woman. 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. In a photograph taken on the same occasion (image uclalsc_1889_b32_f05_005) a flier in a window has the date of Friday July 11, which could be 1947 or 1952. Charlotta Bass retired from the California Eagle in 1951.
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African American civil rights workers African American newspaper editors Bass, Charlotta A., 1880-1969
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