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Description:: First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, is the oldest church founded by African Americans in the City of Los Angeles, dating to 1872. Biddy Mason established the church to minister to the mind, body, and soul of the community. This church served as the cornerstone of the community for spiritual growth, social uplift, and economic development.
Date:: 1941
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: The Los Angeles County Courthouse (Stanley Mosk Courthouse) was designed by: Austin, Field, and Fry, Architects; Martin, A.C. and Associates, Architects; Stanton and Stockwell, Architects; Williams, Paul R. and Associates; Wilson and Associates; William Allen; John Corneby Wilson Austin; Albert Carey Martin Jr.; Jesse Earl Stanton; William Francis Stockwell; Paul Revere Williams); and Adrian Jennings Wilson.
Date:: [circa 1958]
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
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Thomas "Tom" Bradley was the first African American Mayor of Los Angeles from 1973-1993. He was a police officer, and then a Los Angeles city council member in the 1960s
Date:: [1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Diorama, created in 1931, showing the founding of Los Angeles, detail view of Africans among the 22 adults and 22 children arriving at the desert site, with the Los Angeles River and hills in the distance.
Date:: [1931-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Phillips Temple C. M. E. Church was established in 1915. The Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church is a historically black denomination within the broader context of Methodism. It's also occasionally considered to be a mainline denomination. The group was organized on December 16, 1870 in Jackson, Tennessee, by several black ministers, with the full support of their white sponsors. They called this fellowship the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America, which it remained until their successors adopted the current name in the 1950s.
Date:: 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. John A. Somerville seated behind his desk during his campaign for Los Angeles City Council, 10th District.
Date:: [1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sheffield, Maceo B. (Maceo Bruce), 1897-1959
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Portrait of Lloyd Dickey, superintendent of the Willowbrook School District, seated at his desk.
Date:: 1966
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Kenneth Hahn (1920–1997) was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.
Date:: [1950s-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group wedding portrait of Loren Miller, Jr. (to the right of the bride) and his first wife (probably) Anne M. Risher Miller, with family members gathered around them. .
Date:: [November 16, 1957 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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