Miller, Lorenz ca. 1. H. 17. Jh.-

Loren Miller, journalist, civil rights activist, attorney and judge, was born in Pender, Nebraska in 1903. Miller attended Kansas University and received his law degree from Washburn Law School in Topeka, Kansas in 1928. In 1929, Miller came to Los Angeles where he first worked as editor of the California Eagle, the oldest African American newspaper in Los Angeles, which he purchased in 1951. In 1932, Miller and writer Langston Hughes went to the Soviet Union along with other African Americans to make a film on Negro life in Communist Russia. The film never got made. In 1933 Loren married Juanita Ellsworth, a social worker; they had two sons: Loren, Jr. and Edward Ellsworth. Miller spent most of his legal career fighting discrimination (he assisted Thurgood Marshall with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas), chiefly housing discrimination and racial real estate restrictive covenants. In 1948 he successfully argued the restrictive covenant US Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer. He was a member of the Bars of Kansas and California. Miller was a member of and held offices in dozens of organizations including: the NAACP and its national legal committee; American Civil Liberties Union; National Urban League; Los Angeles Urban League; California Advisory Commission on Civil Rights; National Bar Association; National Lawyers Guild; and the United States Commission on Civil Rights. In 1964, Miller was appointed to the Los Angeles County Municipal Court. In 1966, Loren wrote The petitioners: The story of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Negro. He died in Los Angeles in July 1967.

From the description of Papers of Loren Miller, 1876-2003 (bulk dates 1932-1966) (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 232610923