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Title
Newspaper gathering, Los Angeles 1940s
Date Created and/or Issued
[1940?s]
1940/1949
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Rights Information
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Description
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Standing at the far left is Halley Harding. Also standing (R to L) are Eddie Burbridge, Lawrence LaMar, Louie Cole, a man identified as one of the Irving Brothers (publishers of the Neighborhood News), and Leon Washington. Seated (R to L) are Paul McGee, Leon Hardwick, and Dorothy Height (Mr. Gordon identified the woman as Dorothy Height, but she might be journalist Bessie Gant). The man seat 4th from the left is Herman Hill. The others in the photograph are unidentified.
Type

Identifier
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0410
410
Collection 1867 Box 3 Folder 1
ark:/21198/zz0025pgp7
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
African American newspaper editors--California--Los Angeles
African American journalists
Hardwick, Leon
LaMar, Lawrence F,. 1898-1973
Gant, Bess M., 1896-1962
McGee, Paul, 1906-1968
Burbridge, Edward Dejoie, Sr., 1902-1975
Harding, Halley, 1904-1967
Washington, Leon H., Jr. (Leon Harold), 1907-1974
Hill, Herman, 1906-1991
Height, Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010
Cole, Louis V., 1901-1974
Source
Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

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