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Title: Dr. Vada Somerville with two other women, circa 1940s
Alternative Title: Somerville community activities (1)
Date Created and/or Issued: [1940s]
1940/1950
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Dr. John Somerville, born in Jamaica, was the first black graduate of USC School of Dentistry (1907). He married Vada Jetmore Watson (1912), who also became a dentist. He built the Somerville Hotel (1928), was instrumental in the founding of the Los Angeles chapter of NAACP (1914), and served on the Police Commission 1949-1953.
Portrait of Dr. Vada Somerville, seated in a room of a house, with two women standing behind her.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b14_f10_033a.tif
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Subject: African American civil rights workers
African American dentists
Somerville, Vada, 1885-1972
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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