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Description:: The Azusa Mission Church played a key role in the Pentecostal movement at the turn of the twenty century. Its founder, William J. Seymour, an African American preacher, presided over the revival meetings and led the development of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements. The first meeting was on April 14, 1906. Worship at 312 Azusa St. was frequent and spontaneous with services going almost around the clock. The services were characterized by spiritual experiences accompanied with testimonies of physical healing, miracles, and speaking in tongues. Along with members of the Holiness Movement, services were attended by Baptists, Mennonites, Quakers, and Presbyterians and by persons of different races. Women held positions of leadership. After 1915, the church went into decline; following Seymour’s death, his wife continued to hold worship services until 1931.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott married Lillie Dejarnette in 1893. Dr. Garrott earned degrees in Pharmacy and Dentistry at Howard University in Washington, D. C. before bringing his family to Los Angeles in 1901, becoming this city's first Negro dentist.
Date:: [1940s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mary Ellen Pleasant was a very successful 19th-century African American entrepreneur, financier, real estate magnate and abolitionist. She was a "conductor” on the Underground Railroad and helped John Brown plan and finance his slave uprising.
Date:: 1888
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph of Brice Taylor wearing a football uniform on a field at the University of Southern California. The photograph is on a page from an article titled "From football coach to college President."
Date:: [circa 1925]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Brice Taylor (right) with two other men and one woman, standing in front of a stone wall.
Date:: [1950-1974]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Two photos of a man, probably African American, riding a bucking horse, probably done during the creation of a western movie by a white studio. .
Date:: [1940s-1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: African American coachman wearing a tall hat in the driver's seat of a transport buggy hitched to two horses, with a woman passenger seated behind him. A white man, woman and two children stand on the right, with a well-dressed African American woman seated in front of them. The scene is on a narrow, brick-paved lane between two buildings. The building on the right looks like a coach house.
Date:: [1880-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: One Hundred or more African American adults and children pose for a group portrait at Eastlake Park (now Lincoln Park) during a picnic sponsored by their employer, Bullocks department Store.
Date:: [1920s]
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:: June 4, 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: California Governor Goodwin Knight shakes the hand of Louis M. Blodget (the contractor who built the first for Golden State Mutual Life Insurance in 1928; president of f Liberty Savings and Loan), with Allensworth Blodgett (left, son of Louis M. Blodgett) and Jackson L. Taylor (vice president of Liberty Savings and Loan), and Arvilla Knight (wife of Goodwin Knight) looking on.
Date:: [circa 1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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