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Police officer stands with R.F. McGarry, member of the Black Legion secret society, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Police officer stands with R.F. McGarry, member of the Black Legion secret society, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Police officer stands with R.F. McGarry, member of the Black Legion secret society. Black Legion was an organization that had ties to the Ku Klux Klan and operated mainly in Detroit, Michigan in the 1930s. The organization targeted African-Americans and slayed Silas Coleman on May 25, 1935.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: R.F. McGarry - Black Legion.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Black Legion; McGarry, R.F; In pen: Secret Sociation.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00288c5w
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Hate groups--California--Los Angeles
Crime
Legal
Black Legion
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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