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Would-be race riot in 1800 E. 70th

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Photograph caption reads, "Civil rights mob with rabble rousers leading them on front porch at 1863 E. 70th, where W.H. Whitson is selling his home to a negro family." Photograph dated September 7, 1949.
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California Digital Library

Keywords

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

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