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Chester Himes (1909-1984)
Chester Himes was an important writer of fiction and autobiography. Although Himes’s most widely read novels were detective stories set...
Clayton D. Russell (1910-1981)
Clayton D. Russell was an important religious and political leader in the African American community in Los Angeles in the...
Floyd C. Covington (1901-1989)
Floyd C. Covington was a leader in Los Angeles’s black community for more than fifty years. A native of Denver,...
Lucy Hicks [Tobias Lawson] Anderson (1886-1954)
Lucy Hicks Anderson, American socialite and chef, lived the first 59 years of her life as a woman until 1945,...
Paul R. Williams (1894-1980)
Paul R. Williams was one of the most well-known 20th Century African American architects. Early in his career, Williams designed...
E. Burton Ceruti (1875-1927)
E. Burton Ceruti was a prominent attorney and one of the founders of the Los Angeles branch of the National...
H. Claude Hudson (1886-1989)
H. Claude Hudson was an important civil rights and business leader in two different cities: Shreveport, Louisiana, and Los Angeles. ...