Betty Hill, circa 1920

Item Overview

Title

Betty Hill, circa 1920

Alternative title

Betty Hill, civil rights activist

Date Created

[circa 1920]

Date

1920

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

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.
Studio portrait of Betty Hill.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs

Names

Hill, Betty, 1876-1960

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Women political activists
African American civil rights workers