These newspaper clippings from the San Francisco Sun-Reporter show a photograph(2010.60.1.21a) of the participants in the Sun-Reporter's Political Forum and an article (2010.60.1.21b) describing the events and participants in the Political Forum. These…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.60.1.21ab
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