131221-8476ChesterWashington
Chester Washington was a journalist, newspaper publisher and editor. In 1955, Washington became the first African-American news employee at the Los Angeles Mirror-News. Later, he went to work for the Los Angeles Sentinel, the city's largest black-owned weekly, where he became editor in charge. He later bought several papers and formed Central News-Wave Publications, which at one time published over a dozen newspapers. The (now) Chester L. Washington Golf Course was one of the first public golf courses in Los Angeles to allow blacks to play.
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131221-8482AmosCassius
Amos Cassius began preaching in Los Angeles in 1932. For many years he served the church at 9512 Compton Ave. He conducted gospel meetings in Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. He wrote for the Southwest Advocates paper. He helped to build three church houses in California, four church buildings in Oklahoma, and one in Arizona. He attended some of the first meetings in 1936 which resulted in the founding of George Pepperdine College in 1937. Pepperdine gave him the Founder's Award in 1959 and the Christian Service Award in 1961.
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131221-8485JamesAnderson
PFC James Anderson, Jr was a US Marine who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism while serving in Vietnam in February 1967. When his Medal of Honor was awarded on August 21, 1968, he became the first African-American US Marine recipient of the award. The US Navy prepositioning ship, USNS PFC James Anderson, Jr. (T-AK 3002) was named in his honor, as was a park in Carson CA.
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