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City of Los Angeles Councilwomen: Pat Russell, Peggy Stevenson, Joy Picus, Joan Milke Flores, and Gloria Molina

The Women of the Los Angeles City Council: Part Two

March 15, 2021

Last week we shared about the first three women to serve on the Los Angeles City Council.

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City of Los Angeles Councilwomen: Estelle Lawton Lindsey, Rosalind Wyman and Harriett Davenport

The Women of the Los Angeles City Council: Part One

March 08, 2021

Women’s History Month provides an opportunity to celebrate the women who have served as councilmembers of the Los Angeles City Council.

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Members of the Junior NAACP, 1923, Shades of L.A. Collection

Building a Community: A Look at African American Institutions in Early Los Angeles

February 01, 2021

On this first day of African American History Month, we reflect on the African American community of early Los Angeles.

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book cover graphic of The Zohar

Book of Radiance

February 09, 2018

The Zohar (aka Sefer Ha-Zohar, or "Book of Radiance") is considered the key religious text of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism.

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Suffragettes on Parade, LAPL Photo Collection (sometime before 1920)

The Legacy of Equal Rights Magazine

March 04, 2017

March 8 marks International Women’s Day, a global celebration that has taken place yearly since the early 1900s. IWD celebrates women’s social, economic, cultural, and political achievements and contributions and calls for action to increase gender equality.

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Portrait of Thurgood Marshall

Thurgood Marshall - An American Hero

February 26, 2017

“You do what you think is right and let the law catch up”—Thurgood Marshall

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Take a Trip Down Memory Lane

July 07, 2015

Recently, we found a folder tucked away at the back of a file cabinet in the Social Science, Philosophy & Religion Department.

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Jewish American Heritage Month

May 20, 2015

On April 20, 2006, President George W. Bush declared that May would be Jewish American Heritage Month after resolutions passed unanimously in both the House and Senate. President Barack Obama further supported this resolution with his own proclamation issued on April 30, 2013, in which he stated:

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