Los Angeles City Historical Society Webinar - LACHS 2021 Scholarship Presentations – Part 1

Los Angeles CA

27 October, 2021

6:01 AM

Description

Press release from the Los Angeles City Historical Society: October 19, 2021 A webinar with two of our 2021 LACHS Scholarship recipients. Students presents their essays followed by a Q&A sessions. Angela Romero – CSU Long Beach Sorry Charlie: How a Cartoon Fish Became America's most Enduring Icon of Counterculture Capitalism. Valeria Martinez - CSU Long Beach The Formula for a Massacre: Growing Stereotypes and Rising Tensions Towards the Chinese Community in the Late 1800s. In 2019, the Los Angeles City Historical Society implemented a program to award scholarships to outstanding history graduate students at local universities and colleges. We hope that LACHS members and friends wish to support the program by donating funds to the program. Please note that 100% of all donations will go to students. The Board recognizes the critical value of the study and analysis of history to our democracy and seeks to encourage outstanding students in the field. For more information about the LACHS Scholarship Program and to read the students' essays, please visit lacityhistory.org/scholarship. This press release was produced by the Los Angeles City Historical Society. The views expressed here are the author's own.