Los Angeles – 1909 (wikimedia)
Founding Members, Sons of Liberty Chapter, Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Chapter and the Sons of Liberty operated concurrently until the Los Angeles Chapter was absorbed by the Sons of Liberty. The Founding Members of the Sons of Liberty included many Los Angeles Chapter members.
Founding members of the Sons of Liberty Chapter: Charles Bernard, James Bellah, Clifton Brooks, Sr., Arden Brame, Berni Campbell, Robert Emrey, Glendon Hall, Thomas Hatton, Bruce Jagger, John Justice, Donald McDowell, Don Moran, Troy Reed, Roger Robertson, Palmer Scheppe, Robert Steele, and William Tullia.
What’s With the Hat?
To modern eyes, the previous logo for Sons of Liberty looks a bit odd. As was posted on this website a few years ago by Steven Barnes:
That’s not a hat. It’s a cap. A Phyrigian cap.
The Phrygian cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward. In early modern Europe it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty, through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted slaves of ancient Rome. Accordingly, the Phrygian cap is sometimes called a liberty cap; in artistic representations it signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty.
In 1793, U.S. coinage frequently showed liberty wearing the cap or, on many 19th-century pieces, holding it on a Liberty Pole. The U.S. Army has, since 1778, utilized a “War Office Seal” in which the motto “This We’ll Defend” is displayed directly over a Phrygian cap on an upturned sword. It also appears on the state flags of West Virginia, New Jersey, and New York, as well as the official seal of the United States Senate, the state of Iowa, the state of North Carolina, as well as the arms of its Senate, and on the reverse side of the Seal of Virginia.
LIBERTAS ET PATRIA! LIBERTY AND COUNTRY!
Nonetheless, while some wistfully look upon the red cap, many are happy we now have a new logo.
