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Proclamation from Mayor Poulson

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Mayor Norris Poulson presents proclamation designating Feb. 12-19 as Negro History Week (now called Black History Week). Receiving the proclamation are Mrs. Vassie D. Wright, president of Our Authors Study Club, sponsor of the week and Dr. LeRoy Weekes, co-chairman of the week. Photo dated: February 7, 1956.
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Keywords

  1. Black History Week
  2. California
  3. Group Portraits
  4. Herald Examiner Collection Photographs
  5. Los Angeles
  6. Mayors
  7. Portrait Photographs
  8. Poulson, Norris
  9. Proclamations
  10. Weekes, Leroy R
  11. Wright, Vassie D

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