Names: Pilgrim House (Los Angeles, Calif.) - 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:: 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
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:: 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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