Names: Hill, Betty, 1876-1960 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Matthews Photographic & News Service
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: Seated in the front (L to R) are Betty Hill, Dr. Vada Somerville, and Emily Woodie. Back row: 4th from the right is Martha Jefferson Louis. The other women in the photo are unidentified.
Date:: [1940s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

Description:: Kenneth Hahn (1920–1997) was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.
Date:: [1955]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:: July 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Kenneth Hahn (1920–1997) was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.
Date:: 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Studio portrait of Betty Hill seated at a table with a painted botanical backdrop.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Imperial Studio (San Francisco, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Description:: Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Date:: July 1950
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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