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Title
Los Angeles Police Commission meeting, Los Angeles, Los Angeles,1951-1952
Alternative Title
John Somerville and Police Commissioner and receiving Order of the British Empire
Contributor
Prominent Individuals and Families, 1885-1980
Date Created and/or Issued
1951-1952
1951/1952
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
Bates Booth was an attorney who was appointed as president of the Police Commission from 1951 to 1952. He was a deputy district attorney in Los Angeles, and served as a special assistant to the U.S. attorney general in Washington, D.C.
Hugh C. Irey was an accountant, a special agent for the Department of the Interior, and was appointed to the police board in Los Angeles in October 1951.
Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914). He and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953
Irwin R. (Bob) Snyder was reappointed to serve the Board of Police Commissioners for a term from 1947 to July 1, 1952.
Meeting of Los Angeles Police Commission. From left: Dr. John A. Somerville, Herman Selvin, president Bates Booth, Irwin R. (Bob) Snyder, and Hugh Irey.
Herman Selvin was a Los Angeles attorney who served as the president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners from 1952 to 1953.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b14_f15_003a.tif
ark:/21198/z18h03s3
Subject
Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Dept. (Los Angeles, Calif.)
African American civic leaders
African American dentists
African American civil rights workers
African American lawyers
Irey, Hugh C., 1897-1990
Somerville, John Alexander, 1881-1973
Snyder, Irwin R. (Irwin Robert), 1907-1994
Selvin, Herman F., 1904-1982
Booth, Bates, 1903-1967
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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