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Description:: Group portrait of first public school in Los Angeles with two African American students visible, seated and standing outside of a brick building with at least one teacher on the left.
Date:: [1855-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of three African American children. A girl and two boys sitting on a piano bench. The girl (4-6 years old) is wearing a light-colored dress and a bow in her hair. The youngest boy (center, 2 years old) is in a light-colored short pants outfit, and the older boy (6-8 years old) is wearing a sailor's suit.
Date:: [1890-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Four well-dressed African American women seated on an armchair.
Date:: [1950-1970]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Helen Wheeler Riddle was the first African American woman to graduate from USC Law School. She was a member of the Los Angeles branch of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She was active in clubs and events. She was the uncredited author of the USC Fight Song.
Date:: [1920-1930]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: A. C. Bilbrew was the director of the first black choir featured in a film, 1928's Hearts of Dixie, which also happened to be the first black "talkie." She was also a pioneer in radio, becoming the first African American soloist on the radio in 1923, and later, the first African American to have and host a show in 1942. She was a cast member of the movie The Foxes of Harrow in 1947. Bilbrew was a champion of women's rights and childhood literacy; she was a community leader, musician, poet, and deputy to Kenneth Hahn (County Supervisor) A Los Angeles branch library is named after her.
Date:: August 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Walter A, Gordon was the first African American to receive a doctorate of law from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school. He had an extremely long and varied career where he served as a police officer, lawyer, assistant football coach, member of the California Adult Authority, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, and a Federal District Judge. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1925
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:: [1910-1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Tivoly L. A.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of 2 men and 4 women including Helen Gahagan (left) and Charlotta Bass (right). They are looking at a document.
Date:: [1945-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: J. W. Blythe, Photographic Art Studio, 10 Court Square, Montgomery, Alabama.
Date:: 1891
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Blyth, J. W.
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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