Subject: African American Greek letter societies / Genre: group portraits - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Group portrait of Delta Sigma Theta' Sorority members (from right) Vivian Osborne Marsh, Mary McLeod Bethune, two unidentified women.
Date:: 1926
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Anna Bell Hogg was a founding member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority chapter in San Francisco. She was active in civic organizing and was involved in several social functions, and events. She taught elementary school in the San Francisco School District for 32 years. Her husband was Richard H. Hogg.
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is an African American women’s’ Greek organization that was founded on January 13, 1913 at Howard University. Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ; sometimes abbreviated Deltas or DST) is a Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women dedicated to public service with an emphasis on programs that target the African American community. Today, it is the largest African-American Greek-lettered organization. Since its founding, Delta Sigma Theta has created programming to improve political, education, and social and economic conditions, particularly within black communities. In addition to establishing independent programming, the sorority consistently collaborates with community organizations and corporations to further its programming goals.
Date:: 1913
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. (ΖΦΒ) was founded at Howard University in 1920 with a mission to affect positive change, chart a course of action for the 1920s and beyond, raise the consciousness of their people, encourage the highest standards of scholastic achievement, and foster a greater sense of unity among its members.
Date:: 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Robertson Fresh
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: See photograph uclalsc_1889_b24_f07_002 for the center panel, and see uclalsc_1889_b24_f07_004 for the right panel of this group portrait.
Date:: 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jones, R. D.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) is a Greek-lettered sorority, the first established by African-American college women on January 15, 1908 at Howard University. The membership is for college-educated women.
Date:: April 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Carol Brice was an American contralto. She studied at Palmer Memorial Institute, Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama (BA, 1939), and the Juilliard School of Music (1939-1943). She attracted considerable attention for her role in a production of The Hot Mikado at the New York World's Fair (1939), where she worked with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Brice made her recital debut in 1943, that year becoming the first African-American to win the Walter Naumburg Award. Her concerts often featured the piano accompaniment of her brother, Jonathan Brice.
Date:: [1935-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cutler, George M. (George Miles), 1901-1949
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Griffin, Earl, b. 1914 or 15
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Three rows of 27 Delta Sigma Theta Sorority members seated on the steps of a building.
Date:: [1930-1944]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Joseph Phot.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The Rho Psi Phi Medical Sorority was established by Emily Brown Portwig in 1924.
Date:: [circa 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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