Rich Archbold: Sylvia Manheim, Long Beach activist, still going strong at nearly 100

Rich Archbold: Sylvia Manheim, Long Beach activist, still going strong at nearly 100

The Roaring Twenties were in full swing in 1925. Jazz music, Charleston dances, flapper fashion. Women had just won the right to vote. You could buy a new car for $260. A dozen eggs cost 40 cents. Celebrities born that year included Paul Newman, Dick Van Dyke, Angela Lansbury and Donald O’Connor. And, in Brooklyn, New York, there was another birth of someone who was to have a major impact on civil rights issues in Long Beach and Southern Califor…