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Photograph of Lloyd Katz and U.S. Senator Joe Biden, 1986
Date
1986
Description
A signed photograph of Lloyd Katz with United States Senator Joe Biden in 1986.
Digital ID
pho020613
Physical Identifier
0250_0025
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Edythe and Lloyd Katz Papers (MS-00376)
Abstract
The Edythe and Lloyd Katz papers (1934-2002) provide a glimpse of the social, religious, and educational contributions they made to the community of Las Vegas, Nevada. Materials include photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and awards dating from 1934 to 2002.
Date
1934-2002
Extent
5.50 Linear Feet (5 boxes, 2 oversize boxes, and one flat file)
Related People/Corporations
Creator: Katz-Yarchever, Edythe, 1920-2015
Creator: Katz, Lloyd, 1919-1986
Scope and Contents Note
This collection provides a glimpse of the social, religious, and educational contributions that Lloyd and Edythe Katz made to the community of Las Vegas, Nevada. Materials include photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and awards dating from 1934 to 2002. Edythe and Lloyd Katz were prominent members of the Las Vegas Jewish community and also owners of the Nevada Theater Corporation. The collection contains many photographs and a scrapbook about the theaters they owned and managed in Las Vegas (Fremont Theatre, Huntridge Theatre, and Guild Theatre, and Cinemas 1, 2, 3). The Nevada Theater Corporation records contain legal papers, photographs, correspondence, and various documentation for all the theaters owned by the Katz family, including architectural plans for Cinemas 1, 2, 3.
The personal papers include school records, photographs, correspondence, family records, awards and certificates.
The papers about the Katz's community involvement focus on educational activities, the Jewish Community Center, and the many other organizations that Edythe and Lloyd Katz supported.
INVENTORY
Personal Papers, undated
Nevada Theatre Corporation, undated
Community involvement and philanthropy, undated
Jewish Community Center, 1955 to 1997
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Dorothy and Paul Eisenberg with Senator Joe Biden
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Bass
Karen Ruth Bass (/ˈbæs/; born October 3, 1953) is an American politician, social worker and former physician assistant who has been serving as the 43rd mayor of Los Angeles since 2022.[1][2] A member of the Democratic Party, Bass had previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2022, representing California's 33rd congressional district from 2011 to 2013 and California's 37th congressional district from 2013 to 2022. She also served in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010 and spent her final term serving as speaker.[3][4][5][6][7]
A Los Angeles native, Bass attended college at California State University, Dominguez Hills and the University of Southern California. She spent her career as a physician assistant and community activist before seeking public office. Before her election to Congress, Bass represented the 47th district in the California State Assembly for six years. In 2008, she was elected to serve as the 67th Speaker of the California State Assembly, becoming the first African-American woman in United States history to serve as a speaker of a state legislative body.[8][9] She won the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in 2010 for her leadership during the Great Recession.[10]
Bass was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. She represented California's 33rd congressional district during her first term, though redistricting moved her to the 37th district in 2012. She chaired the Congressional Black Caucus during the 116th Congress.[11][12][13] She also chaired the United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations and the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security.
Bass won the 2022 Los Angeles mayoral election to become the first woman[14] and second black mayor of Los Angeles.[15][16][17][18] She was ceremonially sworn in on December 11, 2022 by Vice President Kamala Harris. Bass began her term the following day, December 12.[19]
Early life and education
Bass was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Wilhelmina (née Duckett) and DeWitt Talmadge Bass.[20] Her father was a postal letter carrier and her mother was a homemaker.[6] She was raised in the Venice and Fairfax neighborhoods of Los Angeles and graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in 1971.[21]
Witnessing the civil rights movement on television with her father as a child sparked her interest in community activism. While in middle school, Bass began volunteering for Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign.[22] In the mid-1970s she was an organizer for the Venceremos Brigade, a pro-Cuban group that organized trips by Americans to Cuba.[23] She visited Cuba eight times in the 1970s.[23][24]
She went on to study philosophy at San Diego State University from 1971-1973, and graduated from the USC Keck School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program in 1982. She then earned a bachelor of science degree in health sciences from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1990.[25][26] She also received her master's degree in social work from the University of Southern California in 2015.
Community Coalition and the crack cocaine epidemic
In the 1980s, while working as an emergency medicine physician assistant and a clinical instructor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC Physician Assistant Program,[25][27] Bass witnessed the impact of the crack epidemic in South Los Angeles. After attending "Crack: The Death of a Race", a San Francisco conference hosted by the Reverend Cecil Williams, she decided to organize a response.
In the late 1980s, Bass and other local community organizers founded Community Coalition, an organization with a mission to help transform the social and economic conditions in South Los Angeles that foster addiction, crime, violence, and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing, and changing public policy.[26][28]
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