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Dr. Vada Somerville, Eleanor Roosevelt, Anne O'Ferrall and James Roosevelt at the Somerville home, Los Angeles, 1950

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Title: Dr. Vada Somerville, Eleanor Roosevelt, Anne O'Ferrall and James Roosevelt at the Somerville home, Los Angeles, 1950
Alternative Title: Vada Somerville hosts Eleanor Roosevelt
Contributor: Blakeley Avalon Photographers (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Date Created and/or Issued: January 17-18, 1950
1950-01-17/1950-01-18
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Anne F. O'Ferrall was the President of the Metropolitan branch of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) from 1948 to 1952.
Dr. Vada Somerville hosts a reception in her home honoring Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Dr. Somerville (2nd from left), Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Mrs. Anne O/Ferrall (3rd from right), and James Roosevelt, Roosevelt's son (2nd from right).
James "Jimmy" Roosevelt II, the oldest son of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, was an American businessman, Marine, activist, and Democratic Party politician.
Dr. Vada Somerville (born Vada Jetmore Watson) of Pomona graduated from USC, married dentist John Alexander Somerville (1912), was the first African American woman and the second African American person to graduate from USC School of Dentistry (1918), and was the first African American woman certified to practice dentistry in the state of California. She was a civil rights activist, highly involved in several civic and community organizations.
Reported in, "Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will not campaign for son for Calif. governor," Los Angeles Sentinel, 19 Jan. 1950: A2
Written on back of photo: Reception for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at Dr. Vada Somerville's home. Stamped: Please credit / Photo by / Blakeley / Avalon Photographers / 4733 Avalon Blvd., Los Angeles
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b14_f13_005a.tif
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Subject: African American civil rights workers
First ladies
Receptions
African American dentists
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
Roosevelt, James, 1907-1991
O'Ferrall, Anne F., 1906-1997
Somerville, Vada, 1885-1972
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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