League of Allied Arts honoring recent retirees, Pauline Slater, Juanita Miller and Angelique Bratton, Los Angeles, 1964

Item Overview

Title

League of Allied Arts honoring recent retirees, Pauline Slater, Juanita Miller and Angelique Bratton, Los Angeles, 1964

Alternative title

League of Allied Arts

Photographer

Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988

Date Created

June 1964

Date

1964-06

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Angelique Bratton was a Senior Secretary at the Division of Labor, where she worked for 30 years. She was an active civic leader in the Los Angeles community.
Juanita Ellsworth Miller was the Deputy Director of the Department of Social Welfare for the State of California, a chartered member of the Allied Arts League and a life member of the NAACP. She was married to judge Loren Miller.
Pauline Slater was a teacher and civic leader in Los Angeles. Born in Chicago, she earned her BA and MA degrees at Los Angeles State Normal and the University of Southern California, in Education. She then joined the Los Angeles School District in 1919 and taught at Lafayette and Foshay Junior High Schools. She was active in civic organizations and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Golden Apple Award on Teacher Remembrance Day (1964) and the Los Angeles Fellowship League Award.
Founded in 1939 by Dorothy Vena Johnson and Juanita Miller, the League of Allied Arts was established to promote and support the arts in Los Angeles. They provided cultural enrichment programs for the community, honored the creative accomplishments of black artists and awarded scholarships to talented students from Los Angeles who pursued scholarly studies in the arts.
League of Allied Arts members (left to right) Pauline Slater, Juanita Miller and Angelique Bratton receive orchids in recognition of recent achievements at a breakfast meeting of the League held at Blue Room of the International Hotel.
Reported in "Your Social Chronicler Jessie Mae Brown," Los Angeles Sentinel, 18 Jun 1964: C2

Caption

League of Allied Arts honoring recent retirees in June 1964. Photo by Harry H. Adams.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

photographs

Names

Miller, Juanita, 1904-1970
Slater, Pauline, 1893-1968
League of Allied Arts
Bratton, Angelique De Lavallade, 1906-1997

Subject Geographic

Los Angeles (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American civic leaders
Socialites