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Title: Mary Mcleod Bethune, speaker at Second Baptist Church, Los Angeles, 1938 (?)
Alternative Title: Second Baptist Church, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
[1938 (?)]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Norman O. Houston was the president of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, at one time the largest black-owned business west of the Mississippi.
Group portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune, event speaker, and 22 African Americans at the Second Baptist Church. Mrs. Bethune is in the front wearing a black dress and is leaning on the podium; Norman O. Houston is present (9th from right). On arch above the sanctuary is painted: "One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism".
Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist best known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. She also was appointed as a national adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of what was known as his Black Cabinet.
Written on back of photo: 1938? Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune, speaker at Second Baptist Church
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b18_f04_006a.tif
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Subject: African American civic leaders
Insurance executives
African American churches
Houston, Norman O. (Norman Oliver), 1893-1981
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955
Second Baptist Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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