MOR-1065

Dr. William Lenox Cobb

1963-09-28

SFP 39

San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Box P143, Folder: Cobb, V-Z

Still image

1 photographic print : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.

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Newscopy: William L. Cobb, one of the flood of Negro… came out of the South during World War… defense jobs here, becomes the nation's first... Human Rights Officers. He will fill the position, ranking as assistant superintendent, proposed by the San Francisco Board of Education's Ad Hoc Committee on racial imbalance in the schools. Cobb joined the district as principle of Emerson, a predominantly Negro elementary school at California and Scott Sts., on the edge of Fillmore District. He was the first Negro school administrator in the Bay Area, and has been 16 years at Emerson.

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