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Margaret D. Scott at a party for her 104th birthday at the Pacific Town Club, Los Angeles, 1966

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Title: Margaret D. Scott at a party for her 104th birthday at the Pacific Town Club, Los Angeles, 1966
Alternative Title: Margaret Scott as a centenarian
Date Created and/or Issued: March 1966
1966-03
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Reported in the Los Angeles Sentinel, 21 Apr. 1966: A9.
Margaret D. Scott celebrating her 104th birthday at the Pacific Town Club with an unidentified woman. The Pacific Town Club was located at Adams Blvd. and Montclair Ave.
Margaret "Maggie" Scott founded Scott's Hall (a social hall for meetings and dancing) with her husband John. She was a pioneer member of First AME Church, and took active roles in the development of the church, co-founding of the Sojourner Truth Industrial Club in 1904, and was a guiding force in the NAACP fundraising drives of the 1920s.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b13_f10_006.tif
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Subject: African American civic leaders
Birthdays
Scott, Margaret D., 1862-1969
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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