Mabel and Mitchell Miles, Edythe and Norman O. Houston, Josie Pryce, and Horace Clark, Los Angeles, 1940s

Item Overview

Title

Mabel and Mitchell Miles, Edythe and Norman O. Houston, Josie Pryce, and Horace Clark, Los Angeles, 1940s

Date Created

[1940s?]

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Notes

Summary

Left to right: unidentified man, Mabel Miles, Mitchell Miles, Edyth Houston, Norman O. Houston, Josie Pryce.
Horace P. Clark, Sr., originally from Mississsippi, graduated from Alcorn College. He relocated to Chicago and became a railroad man. He later moved to Los Angeles where he and his first wife, Vera, built the Clark Hotel.
Edythe Houston was the wife of Norman Houston, of the Golden State Insurance Company.
Mitchell Miles was a wealthy man from Buffalo, NY. He and his brother ran a gambling business, but they were pushed out of Buffalo by the mob. They eventually moved to Los Angeles.
Josie Pryce (Dora Josephine Pryce at birth, Josie Pryce Crawfird in 1940) worked for the Golden State Mutual Insurance Company. She was the sister of Edythe A. Houston.
Norman O. Houston was one of the first African Americans to earn a varsity letter in football at UC Berkeley. He graduated from UCLA and became an executive with the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was appointed president of the Los Angeles NAACP in 1964. He participated in the 1965 Selma, Alabama March. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration, U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare during the Nixon adminisatration 1971-1973.

Description

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph : b&w

Keywords

Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Names

Miles, Mitchell Bruce, 1903-1997
Houston, Edythe A. (Edythe Adelaide), 1904-1995
Clark, Horace, 1899-1967
Johnson, Josephine D., 1912-2008

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image