Gathering of the "Top Gals", Los Angeles 1940s

Item Overview

Title

Gathering of the "Top Gals", Los Angeles 1940s

Date Created

[1940s]

Date

1940/1949

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

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

Notes

Summary

Dorothy Vena Johnson was a poet and educator. With Juanita Miller, a social worker and wife of civil rights attorney Loren Miller, she founded the League of Allied Arts in 1939.
Sarah Griffin was the wife of dentist Tom Griffin, a dentist.
Leontyne King was a three-term member of the Los Angeles Public Library Commission, and active in a number of business, governmental and community activities. She and her husband Celes King II were influential members of African American society from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Estelle Sherwood was a beautician. She played the role of the "Blues Wife" in the play "Don't you want to be free" by Langston Hughes, at the Musart Theatre.

Description

L to R: Unidentified woman (possibly Mrs. Bryant?), Estelle Sherwood, Sarah Griffin, unidentified woman (possibly Mrs. Darby?), Dorothy Johnson, Leontyne King, and Zepherine Brown.
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

King, Leontyne, 1905-1976
Sherwood, Estelle
Griffin, Sarah, b. 1900 or 01
Brown, Zepherine
Johnson, Dorothy Vena, 1898-1970

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Lifestyle
Culture