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Order Number	00119143
Title	Curtis accompanies Representative Thomas Rees and House Majority Leader Carl Albert
Photographer	Curtis, Rolland J.
Collection ID	Rolland J. Curtis Collection
Location/Accession	RC 0004.01
Date	Circa 1965
Physical Description	1 negative : safety ; 10 x 13 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	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.; Thomas Mankell Rees was born on March 26, 1925. He served in the California State Assembly and Senate. Rees introduced the bill in the state legislature which created the Southern California Rapid Transit District. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1965. Rees died in 2003.; Carl Bert Albert was born May 10, 1908 in Oklahoma, CA. Due to his 5 feet and 4 inches statue he was deemed as the "Little Giant from Little Dixie." He served as the 46th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1971 and was Oklahoma's 3rd Congressional District Rep (D). Albert was an important figure in advancing the health care legislation, Medicare through President Kennedy's presidency. He also voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1960, 1964, and 1968, in addition to the 24th Amendment and the Voting Rights Acts of 1965. Amidst the Watergate scandal during Nixon's presidency and having referred two dozen impeachment resolutions for debate and study, Albert appointed the first female House page, Felda Looper in 1973. Albert was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1957, holding the highest political office of any Oklahoma native in American history. Albert died in 2000.
Description	Pictured to the left is Representative for California's 26th Congressional District, Thomas Rees at his Congressional Office in Washington, D.C., beside him is Majority Leader Carl Albert (D). Both representatives are from California. Photograph circa 1965. See images 00119143 through 00119145 and 00137907 through 00137941 for additional photos in this series.
Subject	Rees, Thomas M.,--1925- Albert, Carl Bert,--1908-2000. Legislators. Office buildings. Men--Political activity. Men. Handshaking. Flags. Washington (D.C.).
Coverage	1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969
Credits	Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Rights	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Internal Notes	See Folder Record PH-RC-0001_01-0004_38 for upload information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection