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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. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
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)
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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