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Gladys Mason Owens (92), Linda Spikes Cox (standing), Robynn Cox, Cheryl Cox (bottom), Los Angeles, 1988

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Title: Gladys Mason Owens (92), Linda Spikes Cox (standing), Robynn Cox, Cheryl Cox (bottom), Los Angeles, 1988
Alternative Title: Gladys Owens Smith and Manila Owens (daughters of Robert Curry Owens)
Contributor: Early California, 1781-1920
Date Created and/or Issued: December 14, 1988
1988-12-14
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Photographs appear with the newspaper article: "Documentary explores lives of black L.A. pioneers," Los Angeles Sentinel, 15 Dec. 1988, p. 8.
Elwood Mathews, a descendant of Pauletta Laws Fears who won an important housing discrimination case, at the Black Angelinos exhibition at the Afro-American Museum.
Descendants of Biddy Mason, early African American pioneer and Los Angeles landowner: Gladys Mason Owens, great-granddaughter (seated, L, 92 years old); Linda Spikes Cox, great-great-granddaughter (standing); great-great-great-granddaughters Robyn Cox and Cheryl Cox.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b02_f04_004a.tif
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Subject: Smith, Gladys Mason Owens, 1895-1995
Cox, Cheryl
Cox, Robynn
Cox, Linda Spikes
Mathews, Elwood
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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