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Title
Reverend Walter T. Cleghorn with a group of young men at St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, circa 1920
Alternative Title
St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa 1920]
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
Saint Philip's Episcopal Church was founded in 1910 on Paloma St.
Walter T. Cleghorn was a native of St. Kitts island in the West Indies. He came to the United States in 1905 and graduated from Oskaloosa College, Iowa, in 1908. He became the first Vicar of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Los Angeles in 1910, and was an executive member of the NAACP
Walter T. Cleghorn, wearing a biretta and cassock, stands of a group of 12 young men wearing suits.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b18_f06_005a.tif
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Subject
African American clergy
African American churches
African American men
Cleghorn, Walter T. (Walter Thomas), 1881-1832
St. Phillips Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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