Photograph appears with the article "Long Service Plaque goes to Club Pioneer," Los Angeles Sentinel, 15 Nov. 1956: B4. Left to right, Minnie Bates, Margaret D. Scott and Mrs. D. R. Jones (Eva Jones) at an award ceremony for their work in founding the Sojourner Truth Industrial Home for Working Girls. They are at the clubhouse located at 2133 S. Harvard. The Sojourner Truth Industrial Home was a home for single women and single mothers who arrived in Los Angeles without family or money. It was, literally, a home for women who had no home. The women who lived there took classes that taught them a trade. 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. Text from newspaper caption: Cite Achievements of Founders -- Pictured above are the three surviving members who helped form the nucleus from which The Sojourner Truth Industrial Home for Girls was founded. Dating back from the turn of the century these three Civic leaders kept pace with the progress and growth of the community establishing two homes..."
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African American civic leaders Jones, Eva Scott, Margaret D., 1862-1969 Bates, Minnie
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