Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) and African American civic leaders / Genre: photographs - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Smith, Irving C.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Postmaster Leslie N. Shaw holds his Distinguished Citizen Award. Beside him are former recipients, left to right: Judge Vaino Spencer (1962), Vassie D. Wright (1961) and Lorenzo Bowdoin (1960). They are at the award ceremony held at the Ambassador Hotel.
Date:: February 22, 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Paul R. Williams with his wife, Della, at the Wilfandel Club (3425 West Adams Blvd). They are standing in front of an inscription that reads: Wilfandel Club Inc. / Founder Della Givens Williams / Co-Founder Fannie Williams.
Date:: [1960-1970]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Family photographs of the Williams family. Left: Marilyn, Della and Norma in their yard. Right: Marilyn and Norma with Paul in their yard (1271 W. 35th St.).
Date:: [1932-1933]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Margaret "Maggie" Scott founded Scott's Hall (a social hall for meetings and dancing) with her husband John. She was a pioneer member of First AME Church, and took active roles in the development of the church, co-founding of the Sojourner Truth Industrial Club in 1904, and was a guiding force in the NAACP fundraising drives of the 1920s.
Date:: April 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Maurice Dawkins (standing, left), Lorenzo Bowdoin (seated, left) and two men watch as a woman and another man holds a piece of paper, perhaps an award.
Date:: [circa 1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune, event speaker, and 22 African Americans at the Second Baptist Church. Mrs. Bethune is in the front wearing a black dress and is leaning on the podium; Norman O. Houston is present (9th from right). On arch above the sanctuary is painted: "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism".
Date:: [1938 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph appears with the article "Civic leaders hail LA pioneer on 103rd birthday," Los Angeles, Sentinel, 8 Apr. 1965: C10.
Date:: April 4, 1965
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Hugh C. Irey was an accountant, a special agent for the Department of the Interior, and was appointed to the police board in Los Angeles in October 1951.
Date:: 1951-1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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