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Today marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. He was 39 years old when he was shot to death at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
This blog post series looks at the history of the 1905 firing of Mary L. Jones as Los Angeles City Librarian.
This blog post series looks at the history of the 1905 firing of Mary L. Jones as Los Angeles City Librarian.
On April 18, 1958, Major League Baseball finally arrived in what was then the country’s third-largest city. The brand new Los Angeles Dodgers were going to play their first official home game against their fellow, exported from New York arch-rivals, the San Francisco Giants.
Why are the libraries closed on Monday? The answer is Cesar Chavez Day. The holiday celebrates the birthday and legacy of the civil rights and labor movement activist Cesar Chavez.
This blog post series looks at the history of the 1905 firing of Mary L. Jones as Los Angeles City Librarian.
This blog post series looks at the history of the 1905 firing of Mary L. Jones as Los Angeles City Librarian.
Chances are if you have heard of any of the early women City Librarians of Los Angeles Public Library, you may know about Mary E.
The Liberator is an early 20th-century Los Angeles African American newspaper, whose owner and editor, Jefferson Lewis Edmonds, was formerly enslaved and spent twenty years in bondage before Emancipation.
In 1920s Los Angeles, insurance companies considered black Americans to be either uninsurable or extremely high risk. As a result, black people were routinely denied coverage or charged exorbitant premiums.