Image / Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1890-1920

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Title: Betty Hill, Los Angeles, 1890-1920
Alternative Title: Prominent Los Angeles clubwomen and civil rights activists
Date Created and/or Issued: [1890-1920]
1890/1920
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Studio portrait of Betty Hill with a comb in her hair.
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.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b25_f08_007.tif
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Subject: Clubwomen
African American civic leaders
African American civil rights workers
Hill, Betty, 1876-1960
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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