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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.
Date:: [1945-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Marian Anderson, contralto, holding a bouquet of roses in her dressing room, posing with six other women, including Vada Somerville (3rd from right).
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Atlas Photo by Charles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Portrait of William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois seated in his office in front of a bookcase.
Date:: [1940s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
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:: [1944-1951]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist best known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. She also was appointed as a national adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of what was known as his Black Cabinet.
Date:: February 28, 1949
Resource Type:: still image
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.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Smith, Irving C.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Gathering of women at someone's home, including Vada Somerville (2nd row, 3rd from left) and Martha Jefferson Louis (back row, 6th from right).
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Griffin, Earl, b. 1914 or 15
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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