Exposed: Black History L.A.

Claude Hudson

Hudson, Los Angeles, 1965
Claude Hudson (center), the son of a Louisiana slave, devoted his life to civil rights. Hudson enrolled in dental school at Howard University and practiced dentistry in Los Angeles on Central Ave. While at Howard, in 1905, he met white and black students who were trying to improve the lives of blacks. Once they tried to meet in a hotel at Niagara Falls. Since no hotel on the American side would rent to them they stayed on the Canadian side and called themselves the Niagara Movement. No one knew what the Niagara Movement meant, so in 1910, they changed the name to the NAACP.
 

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