Los Angeles’ Sugar Hill was a wealthy, Black Los Angeles neighborhood whose residents played a role in lifting racially restrictive covenants — only to eventually be erased by another force of racial segregation.
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“In 1942, Ross and Helen Raines bought a modest home on Palisade Street in northwest Pasadena. Their new home was within a district where real estate covenants forbid sale to those ‘whose blood is not entirely that of the Caucasian race,’” writes Rick Cole.
Miller, born to a former slave, became the go-to lawyer for black homeowners.
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Read MoreProfessor Greg Robinson writes Loren Miller's activism was not restricted to legal matters alone and defending African Americans. Miller "distinguished himself as a defender of Japanese Americans in face of widespread wartime hostility against them."
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Oakland Post reports that Amina Hassan wins the 2016 Donald H. Pfluegger Book Award for her biography on Loren Miller.
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Dr. William D. Hutchinson, Gamma Zeta Boule' writes “The book covers Loren Miller’s extraordinary life from his birth on a farm in Nebraska in 1903…His travels to the Soviet Union in the early 1930’s were followed by accusations in the 1940’s that he was a communist. The volume details the many civil rights issues about which he wrote and the cases he fought throughout the country and at the U.S. Supreme Court. His 1948 victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Shelley v. Kraemer, which outlawed the racially discriminating restrictive covenants in housing,” and much more.
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Lorn S. Foster (Professor of Politics at Pomona College) writes in the Western Historical Quarterly Review that: "Amina Hassan presents us with an excellent...history of the West in her biography of Loren Miller...[and] reveals Miller as a hidden jewel...and an unsung hero of the national Civil Rights movement."
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Read what Julio Hanson, Assistant Principal at Los Angeles' Loren Miller Elementary School says,
On February 17th, The Azara Group's Founder & CEO (Fatimah Gilliam) and Consultant (Amina Hassan) spoke at Aetna's annual Black History Month event about civil rights trailblazer Loren Miller and leadership lessons for today.
It was held at Aetna's corporate headquarters in Hartford, Connecticut
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“I appreciated the way Dr. Hassan made historic information relevant to our lives today.”
“Learning about another pioneer in black history was very compelling.”
“Some of the material covered is relevant to discussions today about where our country is headed and other material was about personal growth and development. It gave me a lot of food for thought.” CLICK TO READ MORE
Amina Hassan
On January 21, 2017, when Paul Bryan Gray presented Dr. Hassan with the 2016 Donald H. Pflueger book award, the most prestigious award given by the Historical Society of Southern California he said “This book is a monument to Loren Miller that will be invaluable to future historians . . . it will stand for many many years to come." He added that her biography, Loren Miller: Civil Rights Attorney and Journalist is “Absolutely Superb.” Mr. Gray, an attorney and author of Clamor for Equality, is an at-large board member of the HSSC, the oldest historical society in California. HSSC was founded in 1883.
Dr. Amina Hassan receiving the 2016 Donald H. Pflueger book award from Paul B. Gray of the Historical Society of Southern California.
"Loren Miller spearheaded the fight against housing discrimination," say authors Michael Locke and Vincent Brook in their new book Silver Lake Bohemia: A History. They devote Chapter 11 entirely to Miller who lived in L.A.'s Silver Lake district. Moreover, that in quoting from Miller's biography (Hassan 185) they mention that his granddaughter, Robin Miller Sloan, is the first linear third-generation judge in the history of California.
Miller biography on NMAAHC shelf
Loren Miller (1930)
“Situated at the crossroads of those stories of westward black migration, Jim Crow, black and multiethnic civil rights, radicalism, and cultural production is the figure of Loren Miller ...”
