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Title: Proclamation from Mayor Poulson
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1956
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Mayor Norris Poulson presents proclamation designating Feb. 12-19 as Negro History Week (now called Black History Week). Receiving the proclamation are Mrs. Vassie D. Wright, president of Our Authors Study Club, sponsor of the week and Dr. LeRoy Weekes, co-chairman of the week. Photo dated: February 7, 1956.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00064054
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 3113
CARL0000069229
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/27181
Subject: Poulson, Norris,--1895-1982
Wright, Vassie D
Weekes, Leroy R
Black History Week
Mayors--California--Los Angeles
Proclamations
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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