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Title
Rosa Parks Shakes Hands with County of Los Angeles Supervisor Kenneth Hahn during African American Living Legends Program
Creator
County of Los Angeles Public Library
Date Created and/or Issued
1983-02-25
2016-08-01
Contributing Institution
LA County Library
Collection
African American Living Legends Series Program Archive
Rights Information
In Copyright For more information, please visit <http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0>
Description
County of Los Angeles Supervisor Kenneth Hahan shakes hands with Rosa Parks during the fourth annual African American Living Legends Series Program, which celebrated black women in history. Honorees included contralto Marian Anderson, White House seamstress and housemaid Lillian Rogers Parks, civil rights activist Rosa Parks, education reformer Marnesba Tackett, singer Sarah Vaughan, <i>Los Angeles Sentinal</i> publisher Ruth Washington, and Los Angeles leader Vassie Wright. Pictured left to right are Rosa Parks and Kenneth Hahn; Lloyd Mayfield appears in background.
Type
image
Format
black-and-white photographs
image/jpeg
Identifier
brc023
http://cdm15952.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15952coll14/id/22
Language
English
Subject
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
Parks, Lillian Rogers
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
Tackett, Marnesba
Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990
Washington, Ruth
Wright, Vassie
Libraries--Cultural programs
County of Los Angeles Public Library
Place
33.918247
-118.279555
Source
County of Los Angeles Public Library. Black Resource Center
Relation
African American Living Legends Series Collection
African American Living Legends Series Program Archive
Provenance
600 dpi, 24-bit depth color, Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner, SilverFast Ai IT scanning software. Archival master file is a TIFF.

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