Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Collection: OpenUCLA Collections and Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: The Watts Riot, 1965, Los Angeles, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion, took place in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, an African-American motorist on parole for robbery, was pulled over for reckless driving. A minor roadside argument broke out, and then escalated into a fight with police. The riots were blamed principally on police racism.
Date:: [1965]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: African American men holding picket signs on a street corner. Signs read "If good enough to fight together, why not to work together," "Jim Crow must Go!," "American youth wants Democracy [...]" One man holds a folded newspaper with partial headlines reading "[...]pper attacks [...] Lindenberg"
Date:: [between 1939-1945]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Jackson, Vera, 1911-1999
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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:: September 1951
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Douglas, Robert R.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Studio portrait of Cora Leilani (Lani) Flood, a young African American woman wearing a white blouse.
Date:: [1915-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Dorothy Vena-Johnson founded the League of Allied Artists in 1939 with Juanita Miller. She was an organizer for the 12 Big Sisters Club in Los Angeles. She was also an educator, and poet. She was married to attorney Ivan Johnson III.
Date:: [between 1930-1945]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: In 1947 Miriam Matthews was hired to conduct historical research for the murals of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Building.
Date:: [circa 1949]
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:: Stephen Arnold Rendall was an ambrotypist and photographer who migrated from England and was active in Southern California in the early 1860s and from 1866-1869.
Date:: [circa 1869]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Rendall, Stephen Arnold, 1832-1905
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Exterior view of 2nd Baptist church (2412 Griffith Ave.). A sign with church information states "How to Get Along, [Reverend] Dr. [J. Raymond] Henderson."
Date:: [between 1941-1963]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Studio portrait of Dr. Vada Somerville wearing a fringed, embroidered shawl over her dress, standing in front of a velvet drapery panel.
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: California Studio
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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