Names: Louis, Martha Jefferson, 1912-1991 - 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
Collection:: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

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

Description:: Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ) is a Greek-lettered sorority, the first established by African-American college women on January 15, 1908 at Howard University. The membership is for college-educated women.
Date:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Griffin, Earl, b. 1914 or 15
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

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:: [1940s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Griffin, Earl, b. 1914 or 15
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

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