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Description:: Attorney General Stanley Mosk (3rd from right) ready to cut the ribbon for English Square office complex at 85th and Broadway, with the owner, attorney Herman English, and his wife, Eula (right), and (from left): Reverend W. L. Robinson, Attorney Loren Miller, emcee; and Councilman Billy Mills and his wife, Rubye.
Date:: February 19, 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
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:: August 1963
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Walter T. Cleghorn was the Vicar of St. Phillips Church in Los Angeles.
Date:: [between 1910-1932]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Studio portrait of Alla Shaffer wearing an elaborate hat, high neck coat and feather scarf.
Date:: [1860-1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Canada Lee (born Lionel Cornelius Canegata) was a noted 20th century jockey, boxer, actor and civil rights activist. He was primarily a stage actor from the early 1930s to his death. His breakout film role was in 1941 where Lee played Bigger Thomas in the film Native Son to great critical and popular acclaim. His passionate devotion to equality was reflected in his theatrical and film roles.
Date:: undated
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Unidentified African American woman greeted by Richard Nixon in front of a curtain.
Date:: [1950-1970]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Charlotta Bass was the publisher of the California Eagle newspaper from 1912 to 1951, and a civil rights activist. The California Eagle, covering Los Angeles' African-American community, was one of the oldest and longest running African American newspapers.
Date:: 1939
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Dr. Roscoe Fred Whiteman was physician. A member of the American Legion, a post was named after him.
Date:: [1934-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: J. H. Shackelford was a prominent civic leader in Los Angeles. A businessman and real estate broker, he served as president of the local NAACP
Date:: November 26, 1916
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Group portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune, event speaker, and 22 African Americans at the Second Baptist Church. Mrs. Bethune is in the front wearing a black dress and is leaning on the podium; Norman O. Houston is present (9th from right). On arch above the sanctuary is painted: "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism".
Date:: [1938 (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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