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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

Roland Hayes, 1920s-1930s

Description:
Roland Hayes was an American lyric tenor and composer. In 1915 Hayes premiered in New York City in concerts presented by the orchestra leader Walter F. Craig. Hayes performed his own musical arrangements in recitals from 1916 to 1919, touring from coast to coast. He recorded with Columbia in 1939. Hayes continued to perform until the age of 85.
Date:
[1920s-1930s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Roland Hayes, 1920s-1930s

Reverend A. Milton Ward with his wife, Lydia Ward, and others at First A.M.E. Church, Los Angeles, between 1919-1924

Description:
Group photograph with Reverend A. Milton Ward and his wife, Lydia Ward (2nd and 3rd from left), deaconesses Lettie Beverly (left) and Minnie Tucker (right) and about 54 members of the choir of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church at 8th St. and Logan Ave. The pipes of the church organ are in the background.
Date:
[between 1919-1924]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
The Two Friends Photography and Poetic Novelty Literature (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Reverend A. Milton Ward with his wife, Lydia Ward, and others at First A.M.E. Church, Los Angeles, between 1919-1924

Ralph Bunche, circa 1922-1930

Description:
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy. [Wikipedia]
Date:
[circa 1922-1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Hartsook, Fred, 1876-1930
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Ralph Bunche, circa 1922-1930

Portraits of Vivian Osborne Marsh and 15 others in "The Crisis" magazine, 1922

Description:
Walter A, Gordon was the first African American to receive a doctorate of law from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school. He had an extremely long and varied career where he served as a police officer, lawyer, assistant football coach, member of the California Adult Authority, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, and a Federal District Judge. [Wikipedia]
Date:
May 1922
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Portraits of Vivian Osborne Marsh and 15 others in "The Crisis" magazine, 1922

Photomontage related to Second Baptist Church, Los Angeles, 1920s (?

Description:
Photomontage with portraits of six women and six men, arranged around a photograph of a house. Filed with other photographs relevent to the Second Baptist Church in theMiriam Matthews collection, this image may represent an early church building, pre-dating the current church building at 2412 Griffith Avenue.
Date:
1920s (?)
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Photomontage related to Second Baptist Church, Los Angeles, 1920s (?

Old Watts Library, Los Angeles, 1913-1957

Description:
Watts was a small working man's city without a library at the time of its application for Carnegie funding. A grant of $10,000 was received in 1913 and the building was completed in 1914. The architect Elmore Jeffery designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The builder was H.E. La Rue. With little tax base, Watts had trouble providing utilities and services, including library service, and became the only Los Angeles County municipality to join the county library system before 1917. In 1926, seeking relief from the postwar depression and unemployment, and needing a larger base, Watts sought annexation to Los Angeles. The Watts Library then became a branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. In 1957, voters approved a Branch Library Bond Issue, and funding was made available for the construction of a new facility. The new Watts Branch was opened in 1960. The Carnegie building is no longer standing. [http://www.carnegie-libraries.org/california/watts.html]
Date:
[1913-1957]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Old Watts Library, Los Angeles, 1913-1957

Margaret D. Scott, 1920s

Description:
Margaret "Maggie" Scott founded Scott's Hall (a social hall for meetings and dancing) with her husband John. She was a pioneer member of First AME Church, and took active roles in the development of the church, co-founding of the Sojourner Truth Industrial Club in 1904, and was a guiding force in the NAACP fundraising drives of the 1920s.
Date:
[1920s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Empire L. A.
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Margaret D. Scott, 1920s

Margaret D. Scott, 1920s

Description:
Margaret "Maggie" Scott founded Scott's Hall (a social hall for meetings and dancing) with her husband John. She was a pioneer member of First AME Church, and took active roles in the development of the church, co-founding of the Sojourner Truth Industrial Club in 1904, and was a guiding force in the NAACP fundraising drives of the 1920s.
Date:
[1920s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Williams, G. Edwin
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Margaret D. Scott, 1920s

Joseph Blackburn Bass and Frederick Madison Roberts, Los Angeles (?), 1921-1930

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:
[1921-1930]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Joseph Blackburn Bass and Frederick Madison Roberts, Los Angeles (?), 1921-1930

Ivan Harold Browning, 1920-1950

Description:
Ivan Browning was an African American entertainer known for his singing, and acting. He was the lead tenor in the Four Harmony Kings signing group. During the 1920s the group traveled throughout Europe. He and his wife, Maurine Moss Browning, lived in England for several years. The Brownings later did a tour in the United States with Maurine accompanying him on the piano.
Date:
[1920-1950]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Ivan Harold Browning, 1920-1950

Helena Harper Coates, social worker, circa 1915-1925

Description:
Helen Harper Coates was the Executive Secretary of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies. In 1938, she married Edwin Coates, a pianist, composer and faculty member of the Martin-Smith School of Music, who graduated from the Institute of Musical Art (which later merged with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School).
Date:
[circa 1915-1925]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Helena Harper Coates, social worker, circa 1915-1925

Harry Burleigh, 1920s

Description:
Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh was an African-American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer known for his baritone voice. The first black composer instrumental in developing characteristically American music, Burleigh made black music available to classically trained artists both by introducing them to spirituals and by arranging them in a more classical form.
Date:
[1920s]
Resource Type:
still image
Photographer:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Harry Burleigh, 1920s

Group photograph of five Delta Sigma Theta Sorority members, including Miriam Matthews, 1922-1927

Description:
Miriam Matthews was hired as the first African American librarian in the Los Angeles Public Library in 1927. Matthews was also a civil rights activist, historian, and collector of African American art and primary source materials. She was the sister of businesswoman Ella Matthews and lawyer Charles Matthews
Date:
[1922-1927]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Group photograph of five Delta Sigma Theta Sorority members, including Miriam Matthews, 1922-1927

Elmer Bartlett playing the pipe organ at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:
Elmer Bartlett was a highly acclaimed choir director and organist. Churches where he worked in include the First African Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. He received several awards in the course of his career including first prize for directing the Los Angeles AME's choir at a 1926 choir competition at the Hollywood Bowl. By 1940 he had moved to Elgin Illinois. He continued to direct choirs and play the organ for various A.M.E. churches.
Date:
[1920s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Elmer Bartlett playing the pipe organ at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1920s

Choir of the People's Independent Church of Christ, Los Angeles, 1920s

Description:
Group portrait of Reverend N. P. Greggs with the choir and musicians of People's Independent Church of Christ in front of the church (1025 E. 18th St., & and Paloma). The choir has 45 members. The musicians, three men on each side of the choral group, include three violinists, two trumpet players and one saxophonist.
Date:
[1920s]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Choir of the People's Independent Church of Christ, Los Angeles, 1920s

Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1920-1940

Description:
Betty Hill, dubbed by the Los Angeles Sentinel the "Mother of Negro Political Leaders," founded the Women's Republican Study Club (later the Women's Political Study Club) in Los Angeles in 1929. Her many causes included fighting Jim Crow in Los Angeles hospitals and public swimming pools, abolishing separate civil service lists for African American school teachers, and getting the Board of Education to approve a child care center program. Hill was married to Sgt. Abraham Hill.
Date:
[1920-1940]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1920-1940

Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Description:
Bessie Coleman was an African American civil aviator. She was the first woman of African-American descent to hold a civilian pilot license. Due to discrimination against blacks in the U. S., she traveled to Paris in, 1920 to learn to fly and earn an international pilot's license. She then returned to the United States in 1921 and became a "barnstorming" stunt flier. "Queen Bess," as she was known, was a highly popular draw for the next five years. She was a speaker, was often interviewed by newspapers, and she was admired by both blacks and whites. In 1926 Coleman died in a tragic airplane accident. She was 34 years old.
Date:
[1921-1926]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Coleman, African American airplane pilot, 1921-1926

Bessie Bruington Burke with elementary school students, Los Angeles, 1918-1938

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[1918-1938]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke with elementary school students, Los Angeles, 1918-1938

Bessie Bruington Burke and the Cunningham family members at Santa Monica’s Bay Street Beach, 1920s

Description:
Bessie Bruington Burke is recognized as the first black principal of a Los Angeles public school. She attended Los Angeles State Normal School (now part of UCLA) and earned her teaching credential in 1911. Her education was paid for by the Los Angeles Forum, a political and civic organization founded by African Americans in the early 20th century.
Date:
[1920-1929]
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Bessie Bruington Burke and the Cunningham family members at Santa Monica’s Bay Street Beach, 1920s