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  • source I felt appropriate. (See list of names attached.) Among these persons contacted was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times and his key staff members. As you doubtless· know, the Times is undergoing a major trans­ formation and my . guess
  • File unit description: The events and aftermath of the riot in Watts, Los Angeles, August 11?15, 1965; calling up of federal troops; decision whether or not to declare Watts a disaster area; situation reports on daily events; programs to improve
  • ; the County of Los Angeles; the Los Angeles Unified School District of Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles City Junior College District of L 0 s Angeles County; and the County Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles County) at the earliest possible time
  • File unit description: The events and aftermath of the riot in Watts, Los Angeles, August 11?15, 1965; calling up of federal troops; decision whether or not to declare Watts a disaster area; situation reports on daily events; programs to improve
  • of the some 6 million Mexican-Americans in the Southwest. There are now about 2. 5 million in California alone, with a million in Los Angeles County. Their rate of population increase is some 8. 9 per cent - about three times the total rate for California
  • File unit description: The events and aftermath of the riot in Watts, Los Angeles, August 11?15, 1965; calling up of federal troops; decision whether or not to declare Watts a disaster area; situation reports on daily events; programs to improve
  • services, Public Health Service considers such program timely and urgently needed in the Watts area. Program could be launched immediately, utilizing PHS-supported catalytic teams (public health nurse and social worker) to aid the Los Angeles County Health
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Civil Rights – Watts, Los Angeles Riots"
  • Watts (Los Angeles, Calif.)
  • Folder, "Civil Rights – Watts, Los Angeles Riots," Office Files of Lee White, Box 6
  • much so that the police did not sweep the streets. GJt-tt.t,J ~· Governor' Brown is due in Los Angeles at x 8 :00 their time tonight. Larry Levins on [1 of 2 front] ­ [1 of 2 back] ­ T A RIOT, BAU UT IT I S A J. R DI .ST ORB A CE , ·E,PORT D
  • File unit description: The events and aftermath of the riot in Watts, Los Angeles, August 11?15, 1965; calling up of federal troops; decision whether or not to declare Watts a disaster area; situation reports on daily events; programs to improve
  • , WILBERFORCE, OHIO "A confidential source of this Bureau who has furnished reliable information in the past advised·· tha·t a representative of the Black Panther Party at Los Angeles, ·-~ California, and a representative of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
  • the city bus terminal. 1962 Los Angeles, Calif., April 27 -- A battle oceurrcd between police and Black Muslims after a policeman was attacked when he questioned an individual' in the street. Oxford, Min., Sept. 30-0ct. 1 -- A white mob attacked U.S
  • been involved. ·The fact that the Detroit riot reached, within a time ·of two . to three hours, the stage that it had taken the Los Angeles riot, two years before,- 36 hours to arrive at, points up the · necessity for municipal authorities to incre·ase
  • =:.c:i:-.s ,eve:: to ::om:: ~o::~e-.: fo:: •~.:S aerio:u. :.mt ::-eflective di:.lo:~ ir. t::e :ie·.:io:• a l:.=~, :i:c~ of t:1.! pr::~s c.nt! t~:.eviaior. fo:.-.:3 ,:en.:ied to !.t.cn:!£y :l!~c:: -:'o~:.!: r.s :.n .:sc~el!'!.c covesq,:r. uaoc!ated oQly t1
  • may wish to discuss this matter in my absence. The following cities may conceivably be selected as the pllot city: St. Louis, . Providence, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, °Los Angeles, Chicago, and Cleveland. . : ,. ' .,. '' ! • I '. l ". I
  • . C., last evening from New York City. Last~ evening Carmichael attended a student function at Howard University entitled ''Project Awareness" which sponso~~d a speech by Ron Karenga, leader of US, a militant black nationalist group in Los Angeles
  • meeting which was held in Los Angeles, Calif. in November 1967. l Bonds R11,tJ11,Jy on the P11yroJJ S111Jint,s Pl11n &., U.S. S111Jin1,s THEBLACK YOUTR CONFERENCE SOUTHERN OFFICE NORTREBN OFFICE c/o BLACK CONGRESS 7228 S. Broadway Los Angeles, Calif
  • calls from the crowd and so the Commissioner took back the bullho(n and told the cfowd thstt the Attorney bax General w1was there would try to facilit•te bail procedures for those arrested in connection wi~ the i• disturbance•. Durin9 the time in which
  • on Poverty legislation? T: Mainly the same kinds of concepts were involved here. things that were interesting: A couple of One is, we espoused in 1963 in our national conference in Los Angeles, when Whitney Young first came out with this idea
  • was being used by the Headstart program in Wesson burned during the early morning hours of January 30,- 1968. Marshal Hennington stated the house was a two-story building which was not occupied at the time of the fire. The house was located
  • are asking that everyone in Gainesville who is man and woman-enough to stand up and fight _against this oppressive City and County Gove_rnment come and testify on Monday, December 18, 1967." • . . On December 18, 1967, Captain ROBERTT. ANGEL, Captain
  • ral payf th i trict Government. But over the years Congr s ha eral times u ed th · los o tax revenues as standard for computing the ppropriate _con tribution of ~he Feder l Government t:o community upon whic . the Government has placed a . special
  • his region. Many people considered him conservative and backward by national standards. I considered him a very bold and audacious Southern politician. So I went to Los Angeles sympathetic to his candidacy. of course, he had no chance of winning
  • Workers Party (SWP), 1702 East 4th Street, Los Angeles, California. • 'l'his pamphlet reads as follows: 11 The members of the Black. Liberation Front composed of Afro-Americans who traveled. to Cuba feel compelled to issue a stater.:ent as to why
  • and stars on the shoulders, a stripe on the outside of the pants and a bow tie. On October 25, 1966, T-4 advised that at the October 14, 1966, meeting of the Durham Mosque, Minister KENNETH MURRAYwas wearing a uniform for the first time. T-4 stated
  • . Books in Yiddish are published regularly: A book of documentary essays, for instance, [5 of 7] ­ [6 of 7] ­ . . .. LETTERS TO THE DITOR Dear Sir: The Los Angeles Times columnist Paul Coates states in his column of August 25 that "Russian Orthodox, B
  • of this year; personal visits to the Boards of Education and educators in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco; contact with representatives of the Negro press and speeches in the area of civil rights. The combined
  • Classification Pages Demonstrations and Disturbance, Wilcox and Pulaski, Chicago, Illinois, August 12, 1965 redacted under FOIA~ lo;c..) 3 Date Restriction 8/19/65 B i;w, Collection Title Federal Records NACCO (Kerner Commission) Folder Title "FBI
  • jobs, improved operating efficiency, and increased productivity. FINER CARE Will spend $102 million in the hospital modernization program in­ cluding new veterans hospitals in Hines, Ill., Los Angeles, Calif. , Chicago, Ill., and San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • . It is a life or death struggle. This further illustrates that we have only one alternative: Unite for self-defense warfare now, or perish!" Four months later, in August, a combination of hap­ hazard circumstances plunged Los Angeles into the bloodiest
  • ■ auto­ matic downsrading and declassification. OF.CLASSIFIED E.O.13526,Sec.3.S NU /0-r t3 ..Q\ By 'ftla doewmnt _..lu Mltlier -Ddatlona Ul.1 k ~! DOI' -elulou of .... FBI. It le tlle Pl'OPWliFot U.. 1'81 ucl la loulcl lta eon&eata11ft not lo
  • is "I don't believe there was as .much snipe"'ng as we thought at the time the insurrection was on" Spfoa 84 \ . untrained p. 49 - Carry-over paragraph. The quote is "inexperienced National Guardsmen who had never been in combat, who had never
  • e lle r w a s g o in g to m a k e i t p o s s ib le to h a v e a lo n g te r m p la n fo r th e J o h n so n P a r k i- ^ ^ n e by. the N a tio n a l P a r k S e rv ic e . how m u c h /^ 6 ^ 1 p o u t w ith th e e x h ib its . h e s it a t e a m o m
  • AprillS,2008 Reference No. 12916 Processing Note There is no recording to go with this transcript. DATE: 4/10/68 TIME: 4:06 PM CALLER: Drew Pearson Pages ofTranscript: 3 pages Barbara Cline Archivist . '... ~· .. ·~-., I
  • ld te a m i s le a v in g a t th e s a m e tim e - G e n e r a l C lif to n , C o m m a n d e r J o s e p h s o n , C o lo n e l C o o k , ” An ndthe T e d C lif to n m a d e a r a t h e r le n g th y r e p l y , i n w h ic h h e d id j u s t w h
  • trip; Lady Bird has tea with six Ambassador's wives; Mrs. Parker Hart and her time in Middle East; LBJ meets group; Patricia Harris is first African-American woman Ambassador; Johnsons to Celebrezze party; Beautification Bill
  • young Tony and with Diana's h o u s e k e e p e r, f o r a tour of the ground s , a glim pse of the sw im m ing pool, and then to rid e hom e. Gerry w as aglow , with h e r adventure--this t r i p - - and high time it is , b ecau se you can't avoid
  • that this wasn't as bad a bill as it had been painted in the press. I wrote out a couple of amendments finally that I wante d to offer. Along abou t Fr iday when all the time had run out and I had been . attempti ng to be r ecogniz ed, I couldn't get the floor
  • .l ts c1 eo~ldatlo::1 b.r1y. pprocltt't6a : . Jo n oa ~ ht e i~cst. i (;lo c .:l ii uod hot r~ph p ictllTI) o! t e !tunllr ci:it 1 s gra1 1w.d t ;r{gho t m plea. o .P,:c .cl
  • is marching 3 abreast at thiS time. I • 'Marcli 17. 1965 , Beat regards. Sincerely. Bill Moyera Special Aasistant to the Preaident r . Duncan Howlett '1- :All Soub cJ?urch Sixteenth and Harvard Street. Waahinaton, D. c. f J [1 of 4] ­ ,. All
  • . Ellie of le 15th. Laceration of hand whil To DGH (CB). Injury was HERMANCANTY, SR., 46/N/M, of 1166 Clairmount.· Patr. GILBERT STOCKER, DPD, observed Herman Canty and another unkn N/M carrying merchandise from the rear door 9f the Bi~Lo Super Mkt
  • in compl.iance, and . the regulations provide sufficient · leeway so that the · timing of the cut off of funds is at the discretion .o~ the ~g~ncy < afteJ; the heari~g. ' j • . I i . ~ ; 'i , I
  • Gover nor Terry: With bett per aonal regard• • Sincer ely. LYiIDON B. l+.s1N ~ Honor able Cli&r lo• L . Ter ry, Jr . Oovernor of Delaware L BJ / HT/vp ;.., [1 of 5] ­ THE WH !TE HOUSE WASHINGTON March 17 , 1965 TO: Mrs. Elizabeth Abell
  • with local and national union leaders-­ particularly the Steelworkers. No further action is to be taken by CRS on this suggestion at this time. Time Priorities It was agreed to proceed with more specific explorations of the feasibility of meetings 1 and 2
  • Irish or a Negro from Louisiana. For a long time the Negro has been dis­ criminated against, but I don't believe there is a white boy who would like to go down to a bhck country and be treated second class. There are more blacks and browns than whites
  • will . . : from you -­ least .' . . . : l clasp your hands • Obviously, coverage I would like, few days this this isn't the thorough but with fifty and is the bs~t we can do. With love and hope that together states at some quieter time, c5la&1