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Title: South Central Organizing Committee rally
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Mendoza, Javier
Date Created and/or Issued: 1989
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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SCOC leaders (South Central Organizing Committee) and 500 community members gathered at the site of the Compton Auto Plaza to rally in support of a proposal to turn the site into 600 low-cost single-family homes. Mary Patterson, holding 14-month-old son David, hopeful of a chance to buy one of the proposed homes joins others in symbolically staking out a plot on the vacant land. Photograph dated August 20, 1989.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 27 cm. on sheet 28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00092680
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b091_f3_i68
CARL0005027168
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/29183
Subject: Real estate development--California--Compton
Housing development--California--Compton
Low-income housing--California--Compton
Vacant lands--California--Compton
Families--California--Compton
Compton (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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