Word: angeleses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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> Lawyer James D. Lorenz Jr., now 30, gave up private law practice in Los Angeles two years ago to establish California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., which provides free legal help to the state's farm workers, many of them Mexican Americans. C.R.L.A. works through the law and tackles anything...
> Catherine Jermany, 28, is unloved but profoundly respected by the Los Angeles County Welfare system, which suspended her from general hospital in 1965. While working there Mrs. Jermany, who is black, acted on the principle that welfare recipients were no different from other people except that they needed help. She...
Other prominent papers are rapidly falling in line behind Nixon. Last week the Los Angeles Times delivered its endorsement, explaining that the G.O.P. nominee has the best chance of "uniting the country and harnessing its energies" because he is most acceptable to the country's vast, silent middle class...
Negro athletes, who have easy entree with blacks and whites alike, have formed combines to assist fellow Negroes. Three years ago, a group of pro football players, including the Cleveland Browns' ex-Fullback Jimmy Brown and the Washington Redskins' Guard John Wooten, started the nonprofit Negro Industrial and...
One of the most successful efforts is Los Angeles' Green Power Foundation, largely bankrolled by Negro businessmen. Led by Engineer Norman Hodges, 32, the foundation started by making souvenir baseball bats, called "Watts Wallopers," and has since spread out. It now runs a trucking company, plans to start manufacturing...