Planning commissioners for the National Association of Negro Musicians, Los Angeles, 1949

Item Overview

Title

Planning commissioners for the National Association of Negro Musicians, Los Angeles, 1949

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

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

Notes

Summary

Andrew Sturgeon "Doc" Young was an American sports journalist and author. He was also one of the first African American publicists working in Hollywood. He graduated from Hampton Institute (now Hampton Univeristy) in 1941 with a BA degree in business administration, where he edited the school newspaper. Throughout his career he received numerous honors from the National Newspaper Publishers Association. In the 1950s, he served in several top editorial positions at Jet Magazine and Ebony Magazine. He also worked in editorial positions at the Los Angeles Sentinel and the Chicago Defender.
Cortez W. Peters, Sr., opened a business and vocational institute to fully prepare African Americans for business and civil service employment. The first school was in Washington, D.C., and others opened in Baltimore and Chicago.
Dr. H. Hamilton Williams was a biologist, horticulturalist and landscape architect. Head of the department of ornamental horticulture and the Hampton Institute in 1944, he completed a Ph.D. degree in ornamental horticulture at Cornell University in the same year. He may have been working in Los Angeles by 1949, and was employed as a biologist in turf grass reaearch and education at the Los Angeles County Arboretum up to at least 1970. While at Cornell, he directed the Southside Commmunity Chorus. He was also an organist.
George Ramsey was a San Diego businessman, and proprietor of the Douglass Hotel, opened in 1924 as a place for both entertainment and lodging for African Americans in San Diego. He also ran a racetrack in Tijuana with his brothers.
Gwendolyn Harriel was a leading soloist at Independent church.
Albet J. MCneil (b. 1920) is an American choral conductor, ethnomusicologist, author, and founder of the Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers. His career has been dedicated to upholding choral music traditions with the presentation of Negro spirituals and concert music by African American composers. He is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of California, Davis, where he was director of choral activities and headed the Music Education Program. (Wikipedia)
George Garner was a tenor vocalist (and first African American to sing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestry) and conductor.

Description

All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Photograph appeares in the Los Angeles Sentinel, "Plan National Musicians Convention," 3 Mar.: 1949, A2

Caption

Text from newspaper caption: Commissioners confer -- The Central Colony of the LosAngeles Planning Commissioners for the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., met at a dinner meeting here last Friday night. Plans for the annual musicians convention, slated for Los Angles August 21-26, were discussed. Shown above seated. left to right, are: Mrs. Evelyn Williams, Cleveland Kelly, Mrs. Lilly T. Hogue, Albert McNeil, state organizer; Mrs. Lillian Peters, Washington, D.C.; Walter Miller, and Mrs. Blanche Porter. Standing, starting at the left are Charles Williams, Horace Pettibone Clark, Jr., George Ramsey, of San Diego; Miss Gwendolyn Herriel, Cortez peters, Washington, D.C.' Rev. George Garner, regional director; Dr. H. Hamilton Williams, Miss Eleanor Richards, secretary local branch; "Doc" Young, Sentinel sports editor, and Hester Orticke. [The person identified as Hester Orticke is a man, and is possibly Lester Lionel Orticke, who lived in Los Angeles at this time.]

Physical Description

Extent

2 clippings

Keywords

Genre

clippings (information artifacts)
Portrait photographs

African American musicians

Names

Ramsey, George A. (George Alvetta), 1889-1963
Garner, George, 1892-1971
Hogue, Lilly T., 1889-1977
Richards, Eleanor
Williams, Charles Henry, d. 1966
McNeil, Albert
Clark, Horace Pettibone, Jr., 1919-1997
Harriel, Gwendolyn C. Becks, 1923-1952
Peters, Lillian
Miller, Walter
Orticke, Lester Lionel, 1922-1966
Kelly, Cleveland
Williams, H. Hamilton, 1911-1981
Porter, Blanche
National Association of Negro Musicians (U.S.)
Peters, Cortez

Location

California--Los Angeles

Resource type

still image