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Guard home bombed in Wilshire District

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Photograph caption reads, "A reporter talks with two policemen who have been assigned to guard the home of the William Baileys, 2130 South Dunsmuir Avenue, which is one of two homes bombed recently by terrorists in the same block in the Wilshire District. The Baileys are Negroes. The other place bombed is soon to be occupied by Negroes. A fourway official inquiry is now being conducted to catch culprits." Photograph dated March 18, 1952.
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Bombings
  3. California
  4. Dwellings
  5. Herald Examiner Collection Photographs
  6. Los Angeles
  7. Los Angeles Evening Herald Express Photographs
  8. Racism
  9. Social Conditions
  10. Terrorism
  11. To 1964

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