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Miriam Matthews with four others in front of a house with an awning, 1910-1920

Description:
Miriam Matthews, sister of businesswoman Ella Matthews and lawyer Charles Matthews, was hired in 1927 as the first African American librarian in the Los Angeles Public Library. Matthews was also a civil rights activist, historian, and collector of African American art and primary source materials.
Date:
[1910-1920]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews with four others in front of a house with an awning, 1910-1920

Allen Allensworth in uniform with a birds eye view of Allensworth superimposed, circa 1913

Description:
Allensworth was a town founded in 1908, with the idea that African Americans could own property, learn, thrive, and live the American Dream. It was named by Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth. It had a school system by 1910. With the death of Colonel Allensworth in 1914, the town experienced extreme losses, coupled with severe drought and decreased crop yields. Many residents left the area following World War I. The town was memorialized as a state park in 1974, and hosts events annually to preserve its history.
Date:
circa 1913
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Allen Allensworth in uniform with a birds eye view of Allensworth superimposed, circa 1913

Founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Alpha Chapter, 1913

Description:
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is an African American women’s’ Greek organization that was founded on January 13, 1913 at Howard University. Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ; sometimes abbreviated Deltas or DST) is a Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women dedicated to public service with an emphasis on programs that target the African American community. Today, it is the largest African-American Greek-lettered organization. Since its founding, Delta Sigma Theta has created programming to improve political, education, and social and economic conditions, particularly within black communities. In addition to establishing independent programming, the sorority consistently collaborates with community organizations and corporations to further its programming goals.
Date:
1913
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Alpha Chapter, 1913

African American family in front of a house with an awning, 1910-1920

Description:
African American family, one boy, two girls and the parents, standing in front of the porch of a house with a striped awning above them. They are dressed for a special occasion with the boy in a jacket and knickers suit, the girls in light-colored dresses and stockings with large bows in their hair, the mother in a light-colored blouse and long, silk skirt and the father in a light-colored three-piece suit.
Date:
[1910-1920]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
African American family in front of a house with an awning, 1910-1920

Allen Allensworth reading, circa 1913

Description:
Allen Allensworth was born into slavery in Kentucky, served as a Union soldier, became a Baptist minister and educator, and was the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. He founded numerous churches, and in 1908 founded Allensworth, California, the only town in the state to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans, now a State Historic Monument. (Wikipedia)
Date:
[circa 1913]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Allen Allensworth reading, circa 1913

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

Colored Los Angeles greets Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois in their motor cars, 1913

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:
1913
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Colored Los Angeles greets Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois in their motor cars, 1913

William J. Seymour, preacher of the Azusa St. Church, Los Angeles, 1910-1922

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:
[1910-1922]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
William J. Seymour, preacher of the Azusa St. Church, Los Angeles, 1910-1922

Nate Harrison at his homestead, Palomar, Mount (Calif.), circa 1910-1915

Description:
Nate Harrison was born in the American South during the 1820s or 30s. He migrated to California during the Gold Rush, eventually settled on Mount Palomar. He was the first African American homesteader in the area and occupied his homestead from approximately 1856 to 1919. His homestead included a cabin, a patio and an orchard. He had many visitors, and ran a small cottage industry raising sheep, and processing wool and animal hides.
Date:
[circa 1910-1915]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Nate Harrison at his homestead, Palomar, Mount (Calif.), circa 1910-1915

Hotel and grain warehouse, Allensworth, 1908-1918

Description:
After his retirement from the military in 1906, Colonel Allen Allensworth founded the town of Allensworth in 1908, with the idea that African Americans could own property, learn, thrive, and live the American Dream. It was named by Lt. Colonel Allen Allensworth. It had a school system by 1910. With the death of Colonel Allensworth in 1914, the town experienced extreme losses, coupled with severe drought and decreased crop yields. Many residents left the area following World War I. The town was memorialized as a state park in 1974, and hosts events annually to preserve its history.
Date:
[1908-1918]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Hotel and grain warehouse, Allensworth, 1908-1918

William Roberts, A. J. Roberts and Frederick Roberts on the steps of A. J. Roberts son & Co funeral home, Los Angeles, 1905-1915

Description:
A. J. (Andrew Jackson) Roberts attended Wilberforce University and Oberlin College. After graduation he taught school, married Ellen Hemings (a granddaughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson) in Chillicothe, Ohio, and moved to California as an early pioneer in 1888. He founded a transfer and trucking business in 1905, sold it and founded the A. J. Roberts and Sons mortuary. The firm began at 12th and Los Angeles, moved to 1119-1121 S. Los Angeles, and to 1415 S. Central Avenue in 1922.
Date:
[circa 1905-1915]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
William Roberts, A. J. Roberts and Frederick Roberts on the steps of A. J. Roberts son & Co funeral home, Los Angeles, 1905-1915