Names: Somerville, Vada, 1885-1972 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Minnie Pickens was the wife of William Pickens, a writer, orator, and official of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Date:: October 16, 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Date:: [1950s-1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sheffield, Maceo B. (Maceo Bruce), 1897-1959
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Minnie Pickens was the wife of William Pickens, a writer, orator, and official of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Date:: October 16, 1962
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Clarence Muse was an African American vaudevillian, actor, singer, screenwriter, director, composer, and lawyer. Muse was the first African American to "star" in a film. He acted for more than sixty years, and appeared in more than 200 movies.
Date:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Sheffield Photo
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: H. Claude Hudson had a varied career, working as a dentist, lawyer, and businessman. He was President of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Shreveport, Louisiana; after he moved his family to Los Angeles, he was elected President of the Los Angeles branch and served in that capacity for 10 years. In 1931, Dr. Hudson became the first African American graduate of Loyola Law School. He never practiced as a lawyer, however. He also founded Broadway Federal Savings and Loan.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. Vada Somerville receives an Award from Los Angeles County from County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn with her husband, Dr. John A. Somerville (left) and an unidentified man in attendance.
Date:: [1960s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Fay Jackson (left) and Dr. Vada Somerville with a girl and boy, with a stand of trees in the background.
Date:: [1940s-1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Burton W. Chace served for nearly twenty years on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
Date:: June 4, 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of 25 members of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, with Dr. Vada Somerville (seated, 4th from left), and possibly Florence Cole-Talbert (seated 4th from right).
Date:: [1930s (?)]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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:: [1950s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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