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Title: Press Release Commenting on Beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police, March 1991
Date Created and/or Issued: 1991
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Library
Collection: Organizing Los Angeles Workers, 1980-Present
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Description: Scope/Content: The Justice for Janitors campaign responds to the beating by LAPD officers of motorist Rodney King, drawing comparisons to the police violence against union members the year before.
Scope/Content: Local 399 condemned the LAPD beating of Rodney King, while connecting it to the LAPD attacks on a Justice for Janitors demonstration in Century City on June 15. The press release reflects the suspicion that working people and communities of color held for the LAPD during the late '80s and early '90s.
Scope/Content: Justice for Janitors Organizing Committee. 1991.
Type: image
Format: JPG image
Identifier: irle_1940_020
Language: English
eng
Subject: Labor unions--California--Los Angeles
Labor union locals--California--Los Angeles
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Provenance: United Service Workers West (USWW), Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Location: University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections

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