Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1890-1920

Title: Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1890-1920
Alternative title: Prominent Los Angeles clubwomen and civil rights activists
Date Created: [1890-1920]
Date: 1890/1920
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Studio portrait of Betty Hill with a comb in her hair.
Betty Hill, dubbed by the Los Angeles Sentinel the "Mother of Negro Political Leaders," founded the Women's Republican Study Club (later the Women's Political Study Club) in Los Angeles in 1929. Her many causes included fighting Jim Crow in Los Angeles hospitals and public swimming pools, abolishing separate civil service lists for African American school teachers, and getting the Board of Education to approve a child care center program. Hill was married to Sgt. Abraham Hill.

Genre: Portrait photographs
Names: Hill, Betty, 1876-1960
Subject Geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Clubwomen
African American civic leaders
African American civil rights workers