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

Description:: Lorenzo Bowdoin holds a book and Theresa Lindsay holds his awards when he was honored by Women's Sunday Morning Breakfast Club for his contributions to the community for the past 50 years at its "This is Your Life" program Sunday. Lindsay was president of the club.
Date:: November 11, 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Martha Cushnie was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, socialite, and member of several charitable organizations in the greater Los Angeles area.
Date:: September 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Angelique Bratton was a Senior Secretary at the Division of Labor, where she worked for 30 years. She was an active civic leader in the Los Angeles community.
Date:: June 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: J. H. Shackelford was a prominent civic leader in Los Angeles. A businessman and real estate broker, he served as president of the local NAACP
Date:: November 26, 1916
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: James Slaughter, John Martin Scott and Margaret D. Scott on the steps of Scott Hall, a meeting hall located at 6th and Central Avenue.
Date:: [circa 1905]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: James "Jimmy" Roosevelt II, the oldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, was an American businessman, Marine, activist, and Democratic Party politician.
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Carter, Roual
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Andrew J. Jones was a Los Angeles businessman who owned a boarding house and restaurant at 109 San Pedro Street during the 1890s. Blacks and whites came from all over to enjoy his delicious biscuits, earning him the nickname "Biscuit Jones." He was born in Kansas.
Date:: [1915-1916]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Floyd Covington as a young man, age 17, wearing a suit, a plaid necktie and straw boater, standing on a street in South Central Los Angeles. A billboard advertising the April 29 and 30 showing of the movie "Humdrum Brown" staring Henry B. Walthall, playing at the Rosebud Theatre on 1940 South Central Avenue, is visible on a vacant lot across the street on the right.
Date:: June 16, 1918
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Fay Allen was a member of the Los Angeles City Board of Education, an organist, a teacher, a civil rights activist, and political strategist. She was the first African American woman to be elected to the Board of Education, and she founded the Black Musicians’ Union in the early 1900s. She believed in working with diverse communities to foster civic engagement and social uplift.
Date:: [1937]
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:: [1944-1945]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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