Subject Topic: Women political activists - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Betty Hill, dubbed by the Los Angeles Sentinel the "Mother of Negro Political Leaders," founded the Women's Republican Study Club (later the Women's Political Study Club) in Los Angeles in 1929. Her many causes included fighting Jim Crow in Los Angeles hospitals and public swimming pools, abolishing separate civil service lists for African American school teachers, and getting the Board of Education to approve a child care center program. Hill was married to Sgt. Abraham Hill.
Date:: [circa 1900]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Imperial Studio (San Francisco, Calif.)
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Betty Hill, dubbed by the Los Angeles Sentinel the "Mother of Negro Political Leaders," founded the Women's Republican Study Club (later the Women's Political Study Club) in Los Angeles in 1929. Her many causes included fighting Jim Crow in Los Angeles hospitals and public swimming pools, abolishing separate civil service lists for African American school teachers, and getting the Board of Education to approve a child care center program. Hill was married to Sgt. Abraham Hill.
Date:: [circa 1920]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Certificate of appreciation awarded to Betty Hill for her leadership in supporting improvements to Will Rogers Park in Watts, especially in the construction of a swimming pool that was completed in 1955. The park was later renamed Ted Watkins Park.
Date:: 1955
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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