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Description:: Reverend Canon Lewis Penrose Bohler, Jr., was the rector of the Episcopal Church of the Advent in West Adams for 35 years, from about 1961-1996. One of the few African American Episcopal priests in Southern California during the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, Bohler participated in dialogues and demonstrations in Los Angeles and made two trips to Selma, Alabama in 1965 during the civil rights marches. Bohler was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Education and served on the State Board Of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District Board.
Date:: [1950s-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Louise Beavers looks at a program with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (left) and an unidentified man.
Date:: 1958
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Frederick Madison Roberts was a newspaper owner and editor, educator, and business owner. He was also the first African American elected to the California State Assembly. Roberts was a great-grandson of Sally Hemings and President Thomas Jefferson.
Date:: [circa 1959]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity members at a national boulé meeting. Drs. Vada (2nd row 12th from right) and John A. Somerville (3rd row, 11th from the right) are probably present.
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Titus Alexander was a historian and civic leader, politician and historian in Los Angeles.
Date:: [between 1940-1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Charlotta Bass in the back seat of a car and a driver in the front seat, in front of Hooper Market, possibly when she was a Progressive Party candidate for Congress in the 14th District (1950) or vice-president (1952).
Date:: [1950-1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Facade Federal Building by Paul R. Williams and others (300 North Los Angeles Street).
Date:: [1955-1970]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Exterior view of 2nd Baptist church, located (2412 Griffith Ave.) with a sign reading "How to Get Along, Dr. Henderson."
Date:: [between 1941-1963]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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