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Demonstrators, outside City Hall, holding up signs, one reading "5% City Jobs in Not Enough!" at protest urging city to hire more Mexican Americans, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972

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Title: Demonstrators, outside City Hall, holding up signs, one reading "5% City Jobs in Not Enough!" at protest urging city to hire more Mexican Americans, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972
Contributor: Varie, Bill
Date Created and/or Issued: January 17, 1972
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4407
Description: PICKET CITY HALL--Some of the 30 demonstrators who gathered in front of the city Employment Office to demand that the city begin hiring Mexican -Americans in proportion to their numbers in the local population. They then filled out job applications.
Type: Image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b690_270127
ark:/21198/zz0002nj92
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: International
Mexican Americans--Employment--California--Los Angeles County
Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles County
African Americans--Employment--California--Los Angeles County
Activism
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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