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
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