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The best way to celebrate the National Park System in America is to stand on the hallowed ground of any one of them and just look around. They never fail to fill you with wonder and genuine pride in the treasures that exist in this country.
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.
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.
As March is Women’s History Month, it is only appropriate to celebrate some of the women who helped document Los Angeles – big events and small moments – for all to see.
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.