Dr. Vada Somerville with the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations, Los Angeles, 1954

Title: Dr. Vada Somerville with the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations, Los Angeles, 1954
Alternative title: Somerville community activities (1)
Photographer: Smith, A. Ellis
Date Created: September 13, 1954
Date: 1954-09-13
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Dr. Vada Somerville served on the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations from 1953 to 1966.
Dr. Vada Somerville (1st row, center) with 21 other members of the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations.
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.

Genre: Portrait photographs
Names: Los Angeles County (Calif.). Committee on Human Relations
Somerville, Vada, 1885-1972
Subject Geographic: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: African American civil rights workers
African American dentists