Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.) / Names: Bass, Charlotta A., 1880-1969 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Group gathered following the unveiling of the two murals titled “The Negro in California History” in the lobby of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company’s new home office building (4261 S. Central Ave.). The murals were painted by artists Hale Woodruff and Charles Alston and installed on the lower walls of the Roman travertine against which the group is standing. Left to right: George Beavers, Jr., chairman of the board, Golden State Mutual; Charlotta Bass, Publisher of the California Eagle, pulled the cord to unveil the Charles Alston Mural; Norman O. Houston, President, Golden State Mutual; Gussie Woods, mother of Hale Woodruff, pulled the cord to unveil the Woodruff mural; and Titus Alexander, member of the California Historical Society who aided in the research upon which the murals are based.
Date:: 1949
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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
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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
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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:: [1930s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Cutler, George M. (George Miles), 1901-1949
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:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Charlotta Bass (2nd from left), Norman O. Houston (center) with two other men and another woman at the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building, probably after its completion in 1949.
Date:: [circa 1949]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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
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Description:: Charlotta Bass seated at a desk with a book of bound newspaper pages with an unidentified woman.
Date:: [1952 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Jessie Terry was a civic leader in the Los Angeles African American community.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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