Names: Kingsley, Harold M., 1887-1970 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: W. E. B. Du Bois (seated, 3rd right) in a group portrait at Pilgrim House with Dr. Harold M. Kingsley (seated, 4th left), Dr. Vada Somerville (seated, 2nd from left) and fifteen others.
Date:: [1950s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: McLain's Photo Service (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Jessie Matthews Vann succeeded her husband, the late Robert L. Vann, as owner and publisher of the Pittsburgh Courier in 1940. It became one of the most circulated and powerful Black newspapers in the country.
Date:: [circa 1948-1952]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Photo by Hazel (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Text from newspaper caption: Summer Benefit -- A garden party was held in the lovely Somerville Gardens recently by the Church of Christian Fellowship for the benefit of the summer work and craft program. Seen above are the hosts and guests of honor. Left to right: Mrs. G. Raymond Booth, Dr. G. Raymond Booth, co-pastor of the Church of Christian Fellowship, Mrs. Stewart Cole, Dr. Stewart Cole, executive, Pacific Coast Council of Intercultural Relations, Secretary Palmer Van Gundy, Los Angeles FEPS Committee, Dr. John A. Somerville, host, Mrs. Harold M. Kingsley, Rev. Harold M. Kingsley, executive pastor, Church of Christian Fellowship, Dr. Vada Somerville, hostess, Dr. Leslie Pinkney Hill, president, Cheney Teachers College. Los Angeles Sentinel, 21 Jul. 1947: 18.
Date:: July 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: McLain's Photo Service (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. Vada Somerville seated at a banquet table (right) beside Dr. Harold Kingsley, founder and director of Pilgrims' House, another man and woman (left) and a standing man speaking in the center.
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sheffield Photo
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Seated at a banquet table are G. Raymond Booth (2nd from left) and John Anson Ford (3rd from left), with three people standing behind them (from left): Reverend Harold M. Kingsley, Carol Brice, and Jackie Robinson.
Date:: [between 1943-1953]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: McLain's Photo Service (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sheffield Photo
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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