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Originally Posted by HossC
Back in 1930-31, Los Angeles had its own "Negro City Directory". Here's the preface.
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And here's the list of buildings and apartments, which also includes the Dunbar and the Lincoln.
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Charlotta A. Bass was born Charlotta Amanda Spears in Sumter, South Carolina in 1879, the fourth of possibly 16 children. She married Joseph Bass in San Diego, CA in 1914. He was 21 years her senior. They were living in Los Angeles by 1920 when they appear in the Census. Joseph was a newspaper editor and Charlotta is listed in that census as being a magazine editor in a newspaper. By 1930 Joseph was the proprietor of a printing shop and Charlotta was apparently a housewife.
From PBS.org we find this biography:
Charlotta Amanda Bass (1874-1969)
Newspaper publisher-editor, civil rights activist
Bass was born in Sumter, South Carolina on February 14, 1874. She relocated to California in 1910 for health reasons. Charlotta Bass took over control of The California Eagle, upon the death of the paper's founder, John James Neimore, in 1912 and served as its publisher until 1951. She and her husband Joseph Bass, who had served as editor of the Topeka Plain Dealer and the Montana Plain Dealer used The Eagle to push for reforms. They combatted such issues as the derogatory images rampant in D.W. Griffith's film, Birth of A Nation; Los Angeles' discriminatory hiring practices; the Klu Klux Klan; police brutality; and restrictive housing covenants.
Bass' uncompromising stance against racial injustice resulted in her life being threatened on numerous occasions. She was branded a communist, and the FBI placed her under surveillance on the charge that her paper was seditious. However, this never deterred her or her paper from seeking civil and political rights for African Americans and the disadvantaged.
Bass retired from the newspaper business in 1951. Her later years were devoted to politics. In 1952 she became the first African-American woman to run for national office as the Vice Presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket.
She died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12,1969.
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