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Order Number	00137957
Title	Recreation center Yule festival
Photographer	Curtis, Rolland J.
Collection ID	Rolland J. Curtis Collection
Location/Accession	RC 0006.09
Date	1966
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.
Description	Pictured is an unidentified choir group of four men and a woman singing into the microphone, as another larger choir group stands in the background during the Christmas Festival Sing-Along, which was held at the Denker Recreation Center, located at 1550 W. 35th Place. The Sing-Along was a three-day festival scheduled from Dec. 22 through Dec. 24 that was attended by singing groups from all over the city. The unusual festival, which sponsors hoped to make an annual event, was coordinated by the Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church and Bishop R. E. Alexander of the church. See images 00119148 through 00119151; 00130233, 00130234, 00130240; and 00137955 through 00137973 for additional photos in this series.
Subject	Christmas--Miscellanea. Christmas. Festivals. Choral singing. Singers. Singing. African American men. African American women. Men. Women. Microphones. Los Angeles (Calif.).
Coverage	1960; 1961; 1962; 1963; 1964; 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969
Format	Photographic safety negatives
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	Additional photographic print : b&w ; 10 x 13 cm. See Folder Record PH-RC-0005_01-0007_04 for upload information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection