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Order Number	00138748
Title	Leon Ralph testimonial dinner
Photographer	Curtis, Rolland J.
Collection ID	Rolland J. Curtis Collection
Location/Accession	RC_0100.21
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 with 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.; Elected in 1963, Billy G. Mills (1929-) was the third African American to serve on the Los Angeles City Council, a seat he held until 1974 when he became a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. He was the first African American chairman of the Democratic County Central Committee, winning over fellow Councilman Tom Bradley by just three votes.; Bill Greene (1930-2002) was a freedom rider in the South, during the violent years of the Civil Rights Movement. Having served a prison sentence for his part in the demonstrations in Mississippi, he escaped from a Louisiana jail after another arrest and became a fugitive, shortly before becoming engaged to his wife. Greene began his career as the first African American clerk in the California Assembly. By 1967, he had succeeded Mervyn Dymally, taking over Dymally's Assembly seat, and again in 1975, claiming Dymally's recently vacated Senate seat.
Description	Leon Ralph (center), the Democratic Assembly candidate in the 55th District, is pictured at his testimonial dinner with, from left, Assemblyman Reverend F. Douglas Ferrell, Attorney General Tom Lynch, Bill Greene, the Democratic Assembly candidate in the 53rd District, and Councilman Billy Mills at the International Hotel on October 12th, 1966. See images 00053366; 00120490; 00128577 through 00128580; 00138728 through 00138733 and 00138735 through 00138767 for additional photos in this series.
Subject	Leon, Ralph D. Lynch, Thomas C.--(Thomas Connor),--1904-1986. Ferrell, Frederick Douglas,--1944-1982. Greene, Bill,--1930-2002. Mills, Billy G. International Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.). Political candidates. City Council members. Attorneys general--California. Lawyers. Clergy. Politicians. Legislators. African American Clergy. African American politicians. African American legislators. African American men. Men. Westchester (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-0100_01-0102_06 for upload information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection