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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

Description:: Jessie Terry was a civic leader in the Los Angeles African American community. She was the first Black school board member and she worked for the Los Angeles Housing authority.
Date:: February 1957
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group photograph of about 32 members of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in the courtyard of a building. Helen Louise Riddle is in the top last row (4th from R, with a little curl in the center of her forehead). Five women are seated behind a banner reading "Alpha Kappa Alpha."
Date:: June 1931
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Ralph Bunche (left) holding a document for a seated man in an office.
Date:: [1960-1965]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Juanita Ellsworth Miller was the Deputy Director of the Department of Social Welfare for the State of California, a chartered member of the Allied Arts League and a life member of the NAACP. She was married to judge Loren Miller.
Date:: February 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of twenty members of the Southeast Symphony Association at a meeting in a member's home.
Date:: [circa 1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Grave site of Mary Ellen Pleasant, in the Tulocay Cemetery in Napa.
Date:: [1930-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: The same portrait appears in the UCLA yearbook of 1924. Edgar J. Johnson worked for Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company for 45 years, rising to President of the company.
Date:: [1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Photograph of an unidentified African descent artist standing next to a painting hanging on a wall, probably at an exhibition, probably in Los Angeles.
Date:: [1950-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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