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Postwar black Los Angeles captured in photographs

Cal State Northridge journalism professor R. Kent Kirkton leafs through a book spotlighting African American photography as he speaks with reporters on campus.

Cal State Northridge journalism professor R. Kent Kirkton leafs through a book spotlighting African American photography as he speaks with reporters on campus.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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Images in Cal State Northridge’s African American Photography Collection show the city in the midst of social and cultural change as experienced by people whose lives were rarely reflected in the wider media.
Read more: At Cal State Northridge, a photographic window on postwar black L.A.

Images of black history in L.A.

R. Kent Kirkton inspects a negative shot by photographer Harry Adams of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, H. Claude Hudson and others at a 1963 civil rights rally in Los Angeles.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Images of black history in L.A.

Professor R. Kent Kirkton reaches into the large archive of negatives at the university. The $290,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities “allows us to make these photographs accessible to the public in a much more usable and convenient way,” he said.   (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

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