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Title
Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1920-1940
Alternative Title
Prominent Los Angeles clubwomen and civil rights activists
Date Created and/or Issued
[1920-1940]
1920/1940
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
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.
Studio portrait of betty Hill wearing a floral blouse.
Photo caption: Mrs. Betty Hill
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b25_f08_008a.tif
ark:/21198/z13r2b26
Subject
Clubwomen
African American civic leaders
African American civil rights workers
Hill, Betty, 1876-1960
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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