Seated at table, left to right: Mitchell Miles, Mabel Miles, Dr. William A. Goodloe and Juanita Goodloe, and an unidentified man. Standing in rear, left to right: Horace Clark, Albert (Al) Maddox, William Nickerson, Clarence Muse, and an unidentified man (in waiter's costume).
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.
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.