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Title
Vivian Osborne Marsh, circa 1941
Alternative Title
Vivian Osborne Marsh, community activist
Contributor
Joseph, Emmanuel Francis, 1900-1979
Date Created and/or Issued
[circa 1941]
1941
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
Emmanuel Francis (E.F.) Joseph was the first professional African American photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
Vivian Osborne Marsh was born in Houston, Texas, and received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Anthropology at the University of California in Berkeley. She founded the Berkeley campus’ Kappa chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She went on to found several other chapters. Two major projects she organized were the Traveling Library, which provided books to rural portions of Georgia, and Teen Lift, which provided opportunities for underprivileged teenagers to visit events such as symphonies and operas. She was involved in many civic organizations and on February 21, 1981, the mayor of Berkeley honored her contributions by declaring it to be Vivian Osborne Marsh Day.
Studio portrait of Vivian Osborne Marsh.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b10_f24_004a.tif
ark:/21198/z1h14k1w
Subject
African American social workers
Marsh, Vivian Osborne, 1897-1986
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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