Genre: group portraits / Subject Topic: African American dentists - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Three African American couples and an additional woman seated in a park. Left: Cora Jordan with Dr. B. A. Jordan behind her; front row, 3rd and 4th from left: Angelita Williams Nelson and Dr. Eugene Nelson; back row, right: Buell Thomas and (probably) Ethel Miller Thomas; front row, 2nd from left (possibly) Ethel Miller Thomas.
Date:: [circa 1920]
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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