Grace Miller Scrapbook page 02

1954-1955

Miller, Grace

Grace Miller Papers, GLC 69, box 3

James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center, San Francisco Public Library

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Inside front cover of a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings from 1954-1955 that document the police raid on Tommy's Place and the arrest and trial of Grace Miller and Joyce van de Veer. Their lawyer was Robert Cort. On September 9, 1954 Grace Miller and Joyce van de Veer were arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors. Bars they owned, 12 Adler Place and Tommy's Place (529 Broadway), were reportedly the rendezvous point for teenage girls to gain access to alcohol, marijuana, and to meet older men and women. Later clippings concern the sentencing of Grace Miller to two consecutive jail terms (two 6-month sentences to run concurrently).

Digitized with support from the California State Library's Preserving California's LGBTQ History grant project, 2019-2021.

eng

scrapbooks

Lesbian bars
Lesbians

Miller, Grace
van de Veer, Joyce

Nineteen fifties

Police raids

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