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Mayor proclaims Negro history week

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Mayor Samuel Yorty issues proclamation designating Feb. 12-20 as Negro History Week (later renamed Black History Week). From left: Jesse Overstreet; Mrs. Vassie D. Wright; Yorty and Mrs. Leontyne King, library commissioner. Dated February 12, 1966.
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Keywords

  1. Black History Week
  2. California
  3. Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
  4. Group Portraits
  5. Herald Examiner Collection Photographs
  6. King, Leontyne B
  7. Los Angeles
  8. Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photographs
  9. Mayors
  10. Overstreet, Jesse
  11. Portrait Photographs
  12. Proclamations
  13. Wright, Vassie D
  14. Yorty, Sam

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