Image / Ruby Offutt, Los Angeles, circa 1920

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Title: Ruby Offutt, Los Angeles, circa 1920
Alternative Title: African American graduates
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa 1920]
1920
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Ruby Marie Offutt Wheeler, a daughter of Georgia Offutt, was a Los Angeles school teacher for 14 years. She appears as a student at the University of California in Los Angeles in the 1920 yearbook. A June 24, 1932 letter written to her by W. E. B. Du Bois, inviting her to provide her photograph for the "Education Number" of The Crisis Magazine, lists her address as the "University of Southern California." [http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b193-i196]
Studio portrait of Ruby Offutt wearing a graduation cap and gown.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b21_f01_004.tif
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Subject: African American college graduates
Wheeler, Ruby Marie Offutt, 1900-1934
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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