Sisters Gloria and Patricia Roberts at a gathering, Los Angeles, circa 1959

Title: Sisters Gloria and Patricia Roberts at a gathering, Los Angeles, circa 1959
Alternative title: Unidentified Roberts family
Date Created: [circa 1959]
Date: 1959
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description: Frederick Madison Roberts was a newspaper owner and editor, educator, and business owner. He was also the first African American elected to the California State Assembly. Roberts was a great-grandson of Sally Hemings and President Thomas Jefferson.
Gloria Roberts, daughter of Pearl Hinds and Frederick Madison Roberts, graduated from the University of Southern California and studied at the Juilliard School of Music. She was a concert pianist, living and performing in Europe. Her grandmother, Ellen Hemings Roberts, was a granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson.
Sisters Gloria Roberts (center) and Patricia Roberts (daughters of Frederick Madison Roberts) with an unidentified woman at a social gathering.

Genre: photographs
Names: Roberts, Patricia Ann, 1934-2007
Roberts, Gloria P. (Gloria Pearl), 1924-2011
Subject Geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: African American musicians
African American families