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TV Charlotta Spears Bass

In this 1952 photo, Charlotta Spears Bass, publisher of The California Eagle, a Black newspaper, sits in her Los Angeles office. The groundbreaking journalist and civil rights activist who ran in 1952 on the Progressive Party ticket is the subject of a new PBS/WNET "American Masters" short. (Courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library via AP)

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