Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) and African American politicians / Resource Type: still image / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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:: September 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Smith, Irving, C.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Charlotta Bass with Henry Wallace, either during his campaign for president in 1948, or her campaign for vice-president in 1952, as Progressive Party candidates. She is wearing a floral dress and they are standing behind a vase of flowers.
Date:: [1948 or 1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Mervyn Malcolm Dymally was a Democratic politician from California who served in the California State Assembly (1963–66), the California State Senate (1967–75), as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of California (1975–79), in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–93), and later in the California State Assembly (2003–08).
Date:: July 26, 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Frederick Madison Roberts was a newspaper owner and editor, educator, and business owner. He was also the first African American elected to the California State Assembly. Roberts was a great-grandson of Sally Hemings and President Thomas Jefferson.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Tom Bradley (probably, left), Loren Miller (center) and one other man at the Democratic Convention.
Date:: July 7, 1960
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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:: 1952
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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
OpenUCLA Collections

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