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Description:: Saint Philip's Episcopal Church was founded in 1910 on Paloma St.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Thomas Lee Griffith was the pastor of the Second Baptist Church from 1921 to 1940. When Griffith led the campaign to build a larger church (Griffith Ave. and 24th St.), he hired African-American architect Paul R. Williams and black-owned construction businesses. The new building opened in 1925.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Hamel Hartford Brookins was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for 30 years and a civil rights activist. He helped start and was president of the United Civil Rights Council, which helped the black community recover from the Watts riots in 1965. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he was an articulate, self-assured champion of black political empowerment.
Date:: June 07, 1961
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group photograph with Reverend A. Milton Ward and his wife, Lydia Ward (2nd and 3rd from left), deaconesses Lettie Beverly (left) and Minnie Tucker (right) and about 54 members of the choir of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church at 8th St. and Logan Ave. The pipes of the church organ are in the background.
Date:: [between 1919-1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: The Two Friends Photography and Poetic Novelty Literature (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Retirement party for Byron Kenner, with a group of 28 men seated behind a table in an office area.
Date:: [circa 1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Allen Allensworth was born into slavery in Kentucky, served as a Union soldier, became a Baptist minister and educator, and was the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. He founded numerous churches, and in 1908 founded Allensworth, California, the only town in the state to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans, now a State Historic Monument. (Wikipedia)
Date:: 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Allen Allensworth was born into slavery in Kentucky, served as a Union soldier, became a Baptist minister and educator, and was the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. He founded numerous churches, and in 1908 founded Allensworth, California, the only town in the state to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans, now a State Historic Monument. (Wikipedia)
Date:: 1906
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Allen Allensworth was born into slavery in Kentucky, served as a Union soldier, became a Baptist minister and educator, and was the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. He founded numerous churches, and in 1908 founded Allensworth, California, the only town in the state to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans, now a State Historic Monument. (Wikipedia)
Date:: 1906
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Rendering of the exterior of the Osteopathic Hospital of the Los Angeles County General Hospital Osteopathic
Date:: [circa 1957]
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:: [1950s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sheffield, Maceo B. (Maceo Bruce), 1897-1959
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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