Subject: African American football players / Resource Type: still image - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Kenny Washington was the first Bruin to become a consensus All American in 1939, and was among the first African Americans to play at UCLA and in the NFL.
Date:: [ca. 1939-1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Professional football player and UCLA alum Kenny Washington recieves an award from his team, the Los Angeles Rams.
Date:: ca. 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photographed left to right are Dr. Lois J. Evans (chiropodist), Woodrow Wilson Strode, UCLA football star Kenny Washington, and June Bradley celebrating New Year's Eve festivities
Date:: December 31, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Woodrow Wilson Strode registers for compulsory military service under the watchful eye of Sarah B. Parker.
Date:: ca. 1940
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Paul "Tank" Younger, Los Angeles Rams football player, endures a physical exam as a prerequisite of military service.
Date:: ca. 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Photograph of Johnny Riddle in a football uniform on page 73 of the University of Southern California 1925 yearbook.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The 1907 Hollywood High School football team and coach pose for a group photo. Standing, L to R, Edwin Wall, L.H.; Carl Ewing, trainer; John Gower, L.T.; Winslow Bushnell, C.; Rollo Sellen, coach; Homer Brower, R.H.; Harry Gower, L. E. Middle row, L to R, Dick Slaughter, R.E.; Earl Gilmore, sub.; Wilfred Taylor, Q.B. and captain; Clinton Carlock, R.T.; Charles, Knowles, full. Bottom row, L to R, Tachu Ono, sub.; Eric Eastman, L.G.; Charles Peters, R. G.; Bishop Spencer, Sub.
Date:: 1907
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Heinig, Theodor
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. [Wikipedia]. Robinson contributed significantly to the civil rights movement, used his influence, to promote nonviolence, and received NAACP's Spingarn Medal.
Date:: [between 1950-1972]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they heralded the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues since the 1880s. Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. [Wikipedia]. Robinson contributed significantly to the civil rights movement, used his influence, to promote nonviolence, and received NAACP's Spingarn Medal.
Date:: [circa 1939]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Jackie Robinson (right) standing with two unidentified African American men in a park-like seating.
Date:: [circe 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Brice Taylor (right) with two other men and one woman, standing in front of a stone wall.
Date:: [1950-1974]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: O.J. Simpson in an active running pose in an USC track and field uniform. .
Date:: [circa 1967]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Photograph of Brice Taylor wearing a football uniform on a field at the University of Southern California. The photograph is on a page from an article titled "From football coach to college President."
Date:: [circa 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Walter A, Gordon was the first African American to receive a doctorate of law from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school. He had an extremely long and varied career where he served as a police officer, lawyer, assistant football coach, member of the California Adult Authority, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, and a Federal District Judge. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of 24 members of the Whittier varsity football team with 2 coaches on an athletic field, with 1 or 2 African American players, including Nathaniel George (front row, 3rd from left).
Date:: 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections