Miller, Lorenz ca. 1. H. 17. Jh.-
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Miler, Lorentz ca. 1. H. 17. Jh.-
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Loren Miller, journalist, civil rights activist, attorney and judge, was born in Pender, Nebraska in 1903. Miller attended Kansas University and received his law degree from Washburn Law School in Topeka, Kansas in 1928. In 1929, Miller came to Los Angeles where he first worked as editor of the California Eagle, the oldest African American newspaper in Los Angeles, which he purchased in 1951. In 1932, Miller and writer Langston Hughes went to the Soviet Union along with other African Americans to make a film on Negro life in Communist Russia. The film never got made. In 1933 Loren married Juanita Ellsworth, a social worker; they had two sons: Loren, Jr. and Edward Ellsworth. Miller spent most of his legal career fighting discrimination (he assisted Thurgood Marshall with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas), chiefly housing discrimination and racial real estate restrictive covenants. In 1948 he successfully argued the restrictive covenant US Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer. He was a member of the Bars of Kansas and California. Miller was a member of and held offices in dozens of organizations including: the NAACP and its national legal committee; American Civil Liberties Union; National Urban League; Los Angeles Urban League; California Advisory Commission on Civil Rights; National Bar Association; National Lawyers Guild; and the United States Commission on Civil Rights. In 1964, Miller was appointed to the Los Angeles County Municipal Court. In 1966, Loren wrote The petitioners: The story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro. He died in Los Angeles in July 1967.
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Slavery
African American authors
African American civil rights workers
African American judges
African American lawyers
African American newspapers
African Americans in the performing arts
Civil liberties
Civil rights
Communism
Crime and race
Discrimination in criminal justice administration
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in housing
Hate crimes
Inner cities
Japanese Americans
Jews
Journalists
Labor laws and legislation
Lynching
Mass media and minorities
Mexican Americans
Minorities
Police brutality
Race riots
Racial profiling in law enforcement
Racism
Real covenants
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931
Segregation in education
Socialists
Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965
Zoot Suit Riots, Los Angeles, Calif., 1943
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California
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Soviet Union
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Birmingham (Ala.)
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Los Angeles (Calif.)
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Washington (D.C.)
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
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Little Rock (Ark.)
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Montgomery (Ala.)
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United States
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