Image / Pearl Hinds (Roberts), circa 1910

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Title: Pearl Hinds (Roberts), circa 1910
Alternative Title: Pearl Hinds (later married Frederick Roberts)
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1910]
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 Pearl Hinds (Roberts), wearing her graduation dress, before she married Frederick Madison Roberts.
Frederick Madison Roberts was a newspaper owner and editor, educator, and business owner. He was also the first African American elected to the California State Assembly. Roberts was a great-grandson of Sally Hemings and President Thomas Jefferson.
Pearl W. Hinds Roberts was the daughter of Lucy and Wiley Hinds, owner of one of the largest cattle ranches in California. She graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She was a member of the Electoral College in 1952. She was married to Frederick M. Roberts, the first black Assemblyman elected to state office west of the Mississippi.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b13_f01_001a.tif
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Subject: African American families
Roberts, Pearl W. Hinds, 1892-1984
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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