Margaret D. Scott at age 105 in front of her apartment building, Los Angeles, 1967

Title: Margaret D. Scott at age 105 in front of her apartment building, Los Angeles, 1967
Alternative title: Margaret Scott as a centenarian
Photographer: Los Angeles Times (Firm)
Date Created: March 1967
Date: 1967-03
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Reported in "Keep 4th Commandment, Find a Good Man and Marry Young, Woman Says at 105," Los Angeles Times, 23 March 1967: A1.
Margaret "Maggie" Scott founded Scott's Hall (a social hall for meetings and dancing) with her husband John. She was a pioneer member of First AME Church, and took active roles in the development of the church, co-founding of the Sojourner Truth Industrial Club in 1904, and was a guiding force in the NAACP fundraising drives of the 1920s.
Margaret D. Scott at age 105 in front of her apartment building located at 814 48th St.