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Women who backed Dr. John A. Somerville's candidacy for City Council, Los Angeles, 1950s-1960s

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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:
[1950s-1960s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Smith, Irving C.
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Women who backed Dr. John A. Somerville's candidacy for City Council, Los Angeles, 1950s-1960s

Woodrow Wilson High School by Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles, 1968-1969

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The current Woodrow Wilson High School campus and buildings were designed by the renowned African American architect Paul R. Williams. It was an engineering challenge to excavate over one million cubic yards of earth to re-grade the hilltop and to use 3,500 tons of structural steel for the main buildings. The new Wilson High was the first LAUSD school to implement multi-floored buildings equipped with elevators and escalators to accommodate students with disabilities.
Date:
[1968-1969]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Woodrow Wilson High School by Paul R. Williams, Los Angeles, 1968-1969

World War I Officers Reserve Training Camp at Camp Fort Des Moines, 1917

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The 317th Engineers was first constituted on 24 October 1917 and organized at Camp Sherman, Ohio as the 317th Engineer Regiment, 92nd Division. Like the rest of the 92nd Division, the 317th Engineers was an all black, or “Negro troops” unit, with many of the NCOs coming from the 9th and 10th Cavalry. The 317th Engineers sailed for France in June 1918, and it was the first unit of the 92nd Division to enter the line, completing the relief of the 7th Engineers on 23 August 1918. The unit earned campaign streamers for the Meuse-Argonne and Lorraine campaigns supporting the 92nd Division and the 1st Army Corps. After the war, the 317th was demobilized 31 March 1919. [http://www.317thengineers.com/history]
Date:
1917
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Santee
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
World War I Officers Reserve Training Camp at Camp Fort Des Moines, 1917

Young African American woman, circa 1950

Description:
Portraits and brief biographical notes on 16 African Americans. Left to right, and top to bottom: Composer-William Grant Still, Labor Leader-A. Philip Randolph, United States Congress Representative-Arthur Mitchell, Architect-Paul R. Williams, Baritone-Paul Robeson, Writer-Claude McKay, Soldier-Benjamin O. Davis, Contralto-Marian Anderson, Educator-Robert R. Moton, Writer-Langston Hughes, Tycoon-Charles C. Spaulding, Sociologist-W.E.B. Du Bois, Scientist-George Washington Carver, Communist-James Ford, Lawyer-Eunice [Carter] Smith, Musician-Edward K. “Duke” Ellington.
Date:
[circa 1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Young African American woman, circa 1950