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Bessie Bruington Burke, Los Angeles, circa 1907

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[circa 1907]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke, Los Angeles, circa 1907

Loren Miller family, Los Angeles, 1957

Description:
Loran Miller (right) with his family. The older, seated woman is probably his mother Nora Magdalene Miller. The two other men may be two of his then three his brothers (Roland, Cecil and Halvor -- Halvor lived in Chicago later in his life). The younger woman may be his sister Helen Addison.
Date:
September 1957
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Loren Miller family, Los Angeles, 1957

Betty Hill, circa 1920

Description:
Betty Hill, dubbed by the Los Angeles Sentinel the "Mother of Negro Political Leaders," founded the Women's Republican Study Club (later the Women's Political Study Club) in Los Angeles in 1929. Her many causes included fighting Jim Crow in Los Angeles hospitals and public swimming pools, abolishing separate civil service lists for African American school teachers, and getting the Board of Education to approve a child care center program. Hill was married to Sgt. Abraham Hill.
Date:
[circa 1920]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Betty Hill, circa 1920

Colonel Allensworth in a group portrait with military colleagues, 1900

Description:
After his retirement from the military in 1906, Colonel Allen Allensworth founded the town of Allensworth in 1908, with the idea that African Americans could own property, learn, thrive, and live the American Dream. It was named by Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth. It had a school system by 1910. With the death of Colonel Allensworth in 1914, the town experienced extreme losses, coupled with severe drought and decreased crop yields. Many residents left the area following World War I. The town was memorialized as a state park in 1974, and hosts events annually to preserve its history.
Date:
[1886-1906]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Colonel Allensworth in a group portrait with military colleagues, 1900

Anna Madah Hyers in a scene, circa 1880

Description:
Anna Madah Hyers was and African American singer and performed in black musical theater. With her sister, Emma Louise Hyers, Joseph Bradford and Pauline Hopkins, the Hyers Sisters produced the "first full-fledged musical plays in which African Americans themselves comment on the plight of the slaves and the relief of Emancipation without the disguises of minstrel comedy." Their first play was Out of Bondage (also known as Out of the Wilderness), followed by Urlina, the African Princess, The Underground Railway, and Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Date:
[circa 1880]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Anna Madah Hyers in a scene, circa 1880

Josephine Allensworth, circa 1890

Description:
After his retirement from the military in 1906, Colonel Allen Allensworth founded the town of Allensworth in 1908, with the idea that African Americans could own property, learn, thrive, and live the American Dream. It was named by Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth. It had a school system by 1910. With the death of Colonel Allensworth in 1914, the town experienced extreme losses, coupled with severe drought and decreased crop yields. Many residents left the area following World War I. The town was memorialized as a state park in 1974, and hosts events annually to preserve its history.
Date:
[circa 1890]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Josephine Allensworth, circa 1890

Charles Alston, artist who painted the Golden State Mutual mural "The Negro in California History - Exploration and Colonization," circa 1948

Description:
Photographic portrait of the artist Charles Alston. Alston painted a mural in the lobby of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. building in Los Angeles, entitled "The Negro in California History - Exploration and Colonization" around 1948.
Date:
[circa 1948]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Charles Alston, artist who painted the Golden State Mutual mural "The Negro in California History - Exploration and Colonization," circa 1948

Frankie Bowdoin (?), Los Angeles, circa 1950

Description:
Lorenzo Bowdoin was a Los Angeles businessman, civic leader, philanthropist and NAACP leader. One of the first three black clerks hired by the Los Angeles Post Office in 1906, he worked there for 38 years and improved hiring and promotion policies for blacks. He was one of the organizers of Angelus Mortuary (1925) and was the treasurer for many years. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Haitian Coffee Co. He was active in many civic organizations including the Metropolitan YMCA.
Date:
[circa 1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Frankie Bowdoin (?), Los Angeles, circa 1950

Dr. Vada Somerville receives an award from County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, Los Angeles, 1960s

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:
[1960s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Dr. Vada Somerville receives an award from County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn, Los Angeles, 1960s

Sammy Davis, Jr., 1970-1980

Description:
Sammy Davis Jr. was an African American singer, musician, dancer, actor, vaudevillian and comedian. He began his career in vaudeville at the age of 3 with his father, Sammy Davis Sr. and the Will Mastin Trio. Davis became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's (in West Hollywood) after the 1951 Academy Awards.
Date:
[1970-1980]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Sammy Davis, Jr., 1970-1980

Reverend J. Logan Craw and the church choir in front of the First A.M.E. Church, Los Angeles, between 1915-1919

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:
[between 1915-1919]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Reverend J. Logan Craw and the church choir in front of the First A.M.E. Church, Los Angeles, between 1915-1919

Pi Sigma Alpha Honorary Society page in the El Rodeo yearbook, 1930

Description:
Edwin Lucius Jefferson was a 1931 graduate of the University of Southern California Law School. He was the first African American judge west of the Mississippi when he was appointed to the L.A. Municipal Court in 1941, and the first African American Justice for the California 2nd Appellate Court of Appeals. Jefferson was a civic leader, who in 1943 served on a committee to improve the housing situation for minorities in Los Angeles.
Date:
[1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Pi Sigma Alpha Honorary Society page in the El Rodeo yearbook, 1930