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Attorney of Los Angeles Is Elected Delegate To Church ConferenceLOS ANGELES. Ca!., April 2t— Willis O. Tyler, a prominent lawyer of this city has been elected by his church, a lay delegate to the general conference of the A. M. E. church j which will begin in the city of St.; Louis, on the third of May. Mr*Tylerwho represents the intellectual type of the race was born in Blooming, Indiana, July 19. 1880; graduated a I Bachelor of Arts, Indiana State Uni-I versity, 1902; graduated a Bachelor ; of Law, Harvard Law school, 1908;' member of the Illinois Bar and of the ; California Bar; 32nd Degree Mason; j and at the California Bar, he has prosecufed over one hundred suits ef-I fecting discrimination against the j race in theaters and places of public | | accommodations, tind secured a ver-! diet in the supreme court of this state j I—the first of its kind ever rendered,! j to the effect that a private individual could not insert a clause in a deed 1 which prohibited the future sale to persons of African descent.
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Phoenix Tribune
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Sat, Apr 24, 1920
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