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Title: Mayor names 'Dr. Ralph Bunche Day
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: This was an official ceremony in Mayor Fletcher Bowron's office today as he issued proclamation setting aside next Sunday as "Dr. Ralph Bunche Day" in honor of the native Angeleno who brought about peace in Palestine. Left to right: Thomas Griffin Jr., President of the local branch of National Association for Advancement of Colored People; Mayor Bowron; Roy Wilkins, acting national secretary; and L. G. Robinson, member of the executive board. Photo dated: July 13, 1949.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049278
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 11913.; HE-002-286 4x5
CARL0000053413
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17703
Subject: Bowron, Fletcher,--1887-1968
Wilkins, Roy
Griffin, Thomas, Jr
Robinson, L. G
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
African Americans
Civil rights
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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