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Order Number	00134109
Title	Anti-Poverty funds board protest
Photographer	Curtis, Rolland J.
Collection ID	Rolland J. Curtis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	RC_0461.12
Date	1965
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w;10x13 cm.
Notes	Rolland Joseph 'Speedy' Curtis was born in Louisiana in 1922. After serving three years in the Marines during World War II, he and his wife, Gloria, relocated from New Orleans to Los Angeles in 1946. Curtis served four years with the Los Angeles Police Department, but resigned from the force in order to pursue both a Bachelor's and Master's degree from USC. He later became involved in city politics, as an associate of Sam Yorty, and later a field deputy to City Council members Billy Mills and Tom Bradley. He was briefly director of the Model Cities program in 1973. Rolland J. Curtis died in his home in 1979, the victim of a homicide. An affordable housing complex on Exposition Blvd. near Vermont Ave. was named in his honor in 1981, along with a nearby street and park.; Photograph included in the Exhibit: Firsts, Seconds and Thirds: African American Leaders in Los Angeles During the 1960s and '70s from the Rolland J. Curtis Collection.
Historical Data	Leon H. Washington, Jr. (1907-1974) became the first African American to serve on the Board of Directors of the California Newspaper Publishers Association, and his own newspaper, the Los Angeles Sentinel which began publication in 1933, and is currently the oldest and largest running African American newspaper in Los Angeles. Washington became best known for his "Don't Spend Where You Can't Work" campaign, which boycotted businesses that operated in black communities, but refused to hire black workers.
Description	Leon Washington protests the election of the board to oversee Anti-Poverty funds on Spring Street, outside of City Hall and not far from the Los Angeles Times Building (left) and the State Building (right, later demolished). Dated July 12-13, 1965.
Subject	Newspaper editors--United States. Men--California--Los Angeles. Demonstrations--California--Los Angeles. Newspaper buildings--California--Los Angeles. Streets--California--Los Angeles. Lampposts--California--Los Angeles. Sidewalks--California--Los Angeles. Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles. Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles. Art deco (Architecture). Demonstrations. Lampposts. Lost architecture. Men. Newspaper buildings. Newspaper editors. Sidewalks. Streets. Los Angeles Times Building. California State Building (Los Angeles, Calif.). Spring Street (Los Angeles, Calif.). Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Coverage	1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970
Format	Photographic prints
Credits	Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection