Charlotta Bass at an event with Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Hazel Scott, circa 1945-1950

Title: Charlotta Bass at an event with Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Hazel Scott, circa 1945-1950
Alternative title: Charlotta Bass, social life
Date Created: [1945-1950]
Date: 1945/1950
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Charlotta Bass was the publisher of the California Eagle newspaper from 1912 to 1951, and a civil rights activist. The California Eagle, covering Los Angeles' African-American community, was one of the oldest and longest running African American newspapers.
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a Baptist pastor and an American politician, who represented Harlem, New York City, in the United States House of Representatives (1945–71). He was the first person of African-American descent to be elected from New York to Congress. [Wikipedia]
Charlotta Bass (left) with Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. and his wife, Hazel Scott, with an American flag on the left and flowers behind the group on either side.
Hazel Dorothy Scott (1920-1981) was a Trinidadian-born jazz and classical pianist and singer; she also performed as herself in several films.

Genre: Portrait photographs
Names: Scott, Hazel
Bass, Charlotta A., 1880-1969
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972
Resource type: still image
Subjects: African American civil rights workers
African American newspaper editors