Subject Topic: African American college graduates - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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:: July 4, 1918
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Samuel B. Danley, Jr., was a Department of Labor employment specialist. He and Theresa Bel Virginia Harper Danley were the parents of Margaret and Theresa.
Date:: 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Samuel B. Danley, Jr., in cap and gown when he graduated from the University of Southern California.
Date:: 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Dr. Alice Watkins Garrott was a dentist who married dentist. Dr. Alva Curtis Garrott.
Date:: 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Theresa Bel Virginia Harper Danley was the sister of Helena H. Harper Coates and Calvin B. Harper. Her daughter was Margaret Helena Danley.
Date:: 1925
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Ernest Houston Johnson, was the first Black graduate of Stanford University in the class of 1895. He was the brother of Helena and Belle Johnson.
Date:: [circa 1895]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Ruby Marie Offutt Wheeler, a daughter of Georgia Offutt, was a Los Angeles school teacher for 14 years. She appears as a student at the University of California in Los Angeles in the 1920 yearbook. A June 24, 1932 letter written to her by W. E. B. Du Bois, inviting her to provide her photograph for the "Education Number" of The Crisis Magazine, lists her address as the "University of Southern California." [http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b193-i196]
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Samuel Boba Danley and Theresa Bel Virginia Harper Danley were the parents of Margaret Helena Danley.
Date:: 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Studio portrait of Margaret Helena Danley in her cap and gown when he completed her Masters Degree at Howard University.
Date:: 1953
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of the 41 members of the graduating class of the Frank Wiggins Trade School in the basketball gymnasium of the school, with Floyd C. Covington (top, 4th from L).
Date:: June 15, 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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