Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity members at a national boulé meeting, 1950s

Item Overview

Title

Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity members at a national boulé meeting, 1950s

Alternative title

Somerville community activities (2)

Date Created

[1950s]

Date

1950/1960

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Group portrait of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity members at a national boulé meeting. Dr. John A. Somerville is present (4th row back, 3rd from right).

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

photographs

Names

Somerville, John Alexander, 1881-1973
Sigma Pi Phi

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American Greek letter societies
African American dentists
African American civil rights workers
African American businesspeople