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Description:: Billy G. Mills is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member, serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council. He received an associate in arts degree from Compton College and a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA in 1951. While an undergraduate, he joined the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity. He earned a law degree from UCLA in 1954.
Date:: [1950-1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Fourteen African Americans wearing suits and overcoats, standing in front of the porch of a brick building. Three reverends wearing white collars are among the group.
Date:: undated
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:: [1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Since this image is in the Somerville file, the musicians and dancers might be performing music and dance of Jamaica.
Date:: [1940s-1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Victoria Shorey seated on a lawn, in a lace blouse and skirt. Her mother was quoted as saying "Victoria is a remarkable sailor. She knows all the ropes and has the perfect command of her father."
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mabel Gray was a civic leader in Los Angeles who worked with many charity organizations and held several posts in the National Association of Colored Women.
Date:: [1940s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Date:: October 16, 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Rafael Leon "Googie" René was a pianist, orchestra leader, composer and songwriter. He was the son of famed American composer Leon René He started working with Class Records, started by Leon Rene, in 1951, and had some minor instrumental hits for Class with "Wham Bam", "Midnight", "Skumbo," and "Shine On Harvest Moon".
Date:: [circa 1956]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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