Wedding of Ursula and Cecil Murrell at the home of Drs. Vada and John Somerville, Los Angeles, 1946

Title: Wedding of Ursula and Cecil Murrell at the home of Drs. Vada and John Somerville, Los Angeles, 1946
Alternative title: Somerville community activities (1)
Date Created: 1946
Collection: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Description: Cecil B. Murrell was a graduate of UCLA and Hastings Law School. His memberships included the LA Chamber of Commerce, the Urban League and NAACP (lifetime). He served as hearing officer for the Police Commission for eight years. He worked in real estate sales in as a real estate investment counselor. He was known for his dedication to civic affairs and received several humanitarian awards.
Ursula and Cecil Murrell on their wedding day, standing at banquet table with their wedding cake in the home of Drs. Vada and John Somerville, with guests seated behind them. This is the house 2401 Harvard Blvd. where the Somervilles lived from 1944 to 1950/51.
Ursula Pruitt Murrell received a BA and MA in education from USC and was a music teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 30 years. A member of several civic, cultural and charitable organizations, she was known for her involvement in civic work.

Genre: photographs
Subject topic: African American couples
African American civic leaders
African American music teachers
Weddings
African American businesspeople
Names: Murrell, Cecil Boyd, 1908-1982
Murrell, Ursula Pruitt, 1905-1995
Subject geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Longitude: 34.036561
Latitude: -118.306518
Resource type: still image