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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 Robert Farrell (left), James H. Shackleford, and unidentified women. The Pacific Town Club was located at Adams Blvd. and Montclair Ave. Farrell is holding a commemorative resolution in honor of Scott from the City of Los Angeles.
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_004a.tif
ark:/21198/z1jw9xzz
Subject
African American civic leaders
African American politicians
Birthdays
Farrell, Robert, 1936-
Scott, Margaret D., 1862-1969
Shackelford, J. H. (James Harrison), 1875-1972
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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