Pearl Hinds Roberts with a gathering of women, circa 1960

Item Overview

Title

Pearl Hinds Roberts with a gathering of women, circa 1960

Alternative title

Pearl Hinds (later married Frederick Roberts)

Date Created

[circa 1960]

Date

1960

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Pearl Hinds Roberts was the widow of Frederick Madison Roberts, an American newspaper owner and editor, educator and business owner. He became a politician, the first known man of African American descent elected to the California State Assembly. He has been honored as the first person of African American descent to be elected to public office among the states on the West Coast.
Pearl Hinds Roberts seated (left) with a gathering of 10 women in an outdoor location.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs

Names

Roberts, Pearl W. Hinds, 1892-1984

Resource type

still image