LOS ANGELES COUNTY : Human Relations Panel Hands Out Ford Awards
The Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission has honored 11 individuals, the district attorney’s office and the Southern California Gas Co. with John Anson Ford Awards for their contributions to human relations.
The district attorney’s office was cited for its Anti-Terrorist Unit’s Hate Crime Prosecution Team, and the gas company for its Multicultural Community Issues panel.
The individuals honored at the Music Center ceremony Thursday were: County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn; the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; actor Edward James Olmos; Korea Times editor K. W. Lee; Stewart Kwoh, director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center; KCET-TV producer Huell Howser; Vicki Tamoush of the Pasadena Human Relations Commission’s Hate Crime Network; activists Victor Franco and Gisselle Acevedo-Franco; and Janet Baszile and Lee Ann King of the Multicultural Committee of the Palos Verdes Community Assn.
This is the 20th year for the awards presentation, made in honor of John Anson Ford, a former county supervisor who helped established the Human Relations Commission in 1944.
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