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Title
Teachers at Holmes Avenue School, Los Angeles, circa 1920
Alternative Title
Black educators and teachers in California
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa 1920]
1920
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
Senola Maxwell Reeves Green was a teacher at schools in Los Angeles for 35 years. She was also the cofounder of the Haitian Coffee Co. She received her master’s degree in psychology at USC.
Grace Broyles Dinkens was a Los Angeles school teacher, charter member of the Far West chapter Alpha Kappa Alpha, and civic leader.
Dr. Yolande McCullough Stovall was a graduate of UCLA, a teacher in Los Angeles, and a civic leader. She was the wife of Dr. Leonard Stovall, and a charter member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.
Naida McCullough was a school teacher in Los Angeles, and a charter member of the University of Southern California Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. She served as president for the USC branch. In 1925 she also was a temporary Far Western regional director and she established the Alpha Gamma Chapter at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was a well-known concert pianist and art patron.
Ruby Marie Offutt Wheeler, a daughter of Georgia Offutt, was a Los Angeles school teacher for 14 years. She was a student at the University of California in Los Angeles in the 1920. 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]
Written on back of photo: Teachers at Holmes Avenue school. From Left: 1) Senola Maxwell Reeves Green 2)Yolande McCullough Stovall 3) ______ 4) Ruby Offutt 5) Grace Broyles Dinkens 6)Naida McCullough.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b21_f07_006a.tif
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Subject
African American civic leaders
African American educators
McCullough, Naida, 1901-1989
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Dinkens, Grace Broyles
Stovall, Yolande McCullough, 1897-1964
Green, Senola Maxwell Reeves, 1898-1969
Wheeler, Ruby Marie Offutt, 1900-1934
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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