Getty Publications Releases 'Marching West' Book on Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement
On June 16, 2026, Getty Publications released Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs, a new book co-authored by Karin L. Stanford and Mark Speltz. The volume uses historic photographs and narratives to document civil rights activism in Los Angeles from the 1930s through the 1960s, including the work of the California Eagle newspaper under Charlotta Bass, the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, boycotts led by the Los Angeles Sentinel, school desegregation efforts such as Mendez v. Westminster, the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, and actions by the Congress of Racial Equality and United Civil Rights Committee. The book is priced at $45/£40.
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The publication supplies primary visual evidence from Black-owned newspapers and photographers that broadens the documented geography of the civil rights movement beyond the American South. For curators and collectors it adds verifiable Los Angeles material to institutional holdings focused on 20th-century social documentary photography and supplies concrete examples of how local campaigns influenced national legislation such as the Rumford Fair Housing Act.
- People: Karin L. Stanford, Mark Speltz, Charlotta Bass
- Museums: Getty
- Locations: Los Angeles
- Prices: $45
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