Dr. Vada Somerville served on the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations from 1953 to 1966. Dr. Vada Somerville (1st row, center) with 21 other members of the Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations. 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.
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African American civil rights workers African American dentists Los Angeles County (Calif.). Committee on Human Relations Somerville, Vada, 1885-1972
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