Subject Topic: African American music teachers - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Ursula Pruitt Murrell received a BA and MA in education from USC and was a music teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 30 years. A member of several civic, cultural and charitable organizations, she was known for her involvement in civic work.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Edwin Coates (Charles Edwin Coates) was a pianist, composer and faculty member of the Martin-Smith School of Music in New York. In 1917, he graduated from the Institute of Musical Art, which was founded and directed by Frank Heino Damrosch, and which later merged with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School. In 1938 he married social worker Helena Hester Harper, the Executive Secretary of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies.
Date:: [1940-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
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:: [1944-1951]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: View of well-dressed men and women on the lawn of a house at an event of the W. T. Wilkins Piano Academy, most likely a recital. A banner shows a silhouette of a piano and the date range "1916-1923."
Date:: 1923
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Ursula Pruitt Murrell received a BA and MA in education from USC and was a music teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 30 years. A member of several civic, cultural and charitable organizations, she was known for her involvement in civic work.
Date:: 1946
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Thomas L. Griffith Jr. was a Superior Court judge who was the first black ever elected in a Los Angeles countywide vote and the first black attorney ever admitted to the Los Angeles County Bar Association. From 1934 to 1949 he headed the NAACP here and was at the forefront of the integration of municipal swimming pools.
Date:: April 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Group portrait of students and adults seated in front of a Victorian style house. In the middle of the front row is a sign reading "W. T. Wilkins Music School / E.M.C. Music Club / The W. T. Wilkins Pupil Recital / At Lyceum T.M.A. Hall / Tuesday / May 15th 1917."
Date:: May 15, 1917
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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