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Joseph Blackburn Bass, 1900-1919

Description:
Joseph Blackburn Bass founded the Topeka Call, a black community newspaper. He continued to work on that newspaper when it was purchased by another owner and its name changed to the Topeka Plaindealer. Bass was active in local politics, and in 1896 was one of the Kansas delegates to the Republican National Convention that nominated William McKinley for President. After a short stint publishing a black community newspaper in Helena, Montana, Bass moved to Los Angeles, where in 1913, he accepted Charlotta Spears' offer to edit the California Eagle. Spears and Bass married in 1914.
Date:
[1900-1919]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Joseph Blackburn Bass, 1900-1919

Drawing of Estevanico, a 16th century African explorer, by Sam Patrick, circa 1969

Description:
Samuel James Patrick began his art studies in Philadelphia. By 1925 he had moved to Los Angeles and enrolled at the Otis Art Institute. He was then a staff artist at the Los Angeles Times for over 40 years. He provided the illustrations for the book "They Had a Dream" (1970) by George Reasons.
Date:
[circa 1969]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Drawing of Estevanico, a 16th century African explorer, by Sam Patrick, circa 1969

Reverend Jeremiah B. Sanderson, circa 1860

Description:
Jeremiah B. Sanderson, a free, New Bedford-educated black man who was active in the abolitionist movement in the Northeast, moved to California during the Gold Rush era and became one of the most influential spokesmen and educators in the state. He successfully petitioned to get public funding for "colored schools" in the 1850s-1870s in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Stockton, with black families from across the state sending their children to his school in Stockton. Sanderson was also a key organizer of state and district conventions during that time period that called for greater civil rights for blacks in California. He was a minister of the First A.M.E. Church in Oakland.
Date:
[circa 1860]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Reverend Jeremiah B. Sanderson, circa 1860

W.E.B. Du Bois, 1918

Description:
W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. After completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. (Wikipedia)
Date:
1918
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
W.E.B. Du Bois, 1918

Barber shop of Robert James Boyd, Los Angeles, 1902-1910

Description:
Robert James Boyd was born in North Carolina. He married Emma P. Barrett in Los Angeles and in 1910 they lived at 1242 El Molino (now 1242 Kenmore Ave.) in Los Angeles, next to 1244 El Molino, where Emma had lived with her family before she was married from as early as 1900. By 1917, he is reported as working in a barbershop in Riverside city directories from 1917 to 1947. According to Miriam Matthews, he owned the barbershop. Robert and Emma had four children: Barrett, Willis, Helen and Edward.
Date:
[1902-1910]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Barber shop of Robert James Boyd, Los Angeles, 1902-1910

Map of Beckwourth Pass, Chilcoot-Vinton (California), (copy photo 1930-1989)

Description:
James Beckwourth, of mixed-race, and was born into slavery in Virginia. His father was the plantation master, and his mother was an enslaved African American. Beckwourth became a trapper and explorer in California, where he lived with the Crow Nation for several years and married Crow women. He guided migrants to California and discovered the “Beckwourth Pass” through the mountains between Reno, Nevada and Portola, California.
Date:
[1930-1989]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Map of Beckwourth Pass, Chilcoot-Vinton (California), (copy photo 1930-1989)

James P. Beckwourth, mountain man, explorer, fur trader, circa 1856

Description:
James Beckwourth, of mixed-race, and was born into slavery in Virginia. His father was the plantation master, and his mother was an enslaved African American. Beckwourth became a trapper and explorer in California, where he lived with the Crow Nation for several years and married Crow women. He guided migrants to California and discovered the “Beckwourth Pass” through the mountains between Reno, Nevada and Portola, California.
Date:
[circa 1856]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
James P. Beckwourth, mountain man, explorer, fur trader, circa 1856

Drawing of York, a late 18th-early 19th century African American explorer, by Sam Patrick, circa 1969

Description:
Samuel James Patrick began his art studies in Philadelphia. By 1925 he had moved to Los Angeles and enrolled at the Otis Art Institute. He was then a staff artist at the Los Angeles Times for over 40 years. He provided the illustrations for the book "They Had a Dream" (1970) by George Reasons.
Date:
[circa 1969]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Drawing of York, a late 18th-early 19th century African American explorer, by Sam Patrick, circa 1969