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Title
Betty Hill is honored for her contributions to Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 1955
Alternative Title
Prominent Los Angeles clubwomen and civil rights activists
Date Created and/or Issued
[1955]
1955
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information
spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description
Kenneth Hahn (1920–1997) was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years, from 1952 to 1992. Hahn was on the Los Angeles City Council from 1947 to 1952. He was an ardent supporter of civil rights throughout the 1960s, and met Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1961.
Betty Hill, dubbed by the Los Angeles Sentinel the "Mother of Negro Political Leaders," founded the Women's Republican Study Club (later the Women's Political Study Club) in Los Angeles in 1929. Her many causes included fighting Jim Crow in Los Angeles hospitals and public swimming pools, abolishing separate civil service lists for African American school teachers, and getting the Board of Education to approve a child care center program. Hill was married to Sgt. Abraham Hill.
Betty Hill holds an award certificate with 11 people standing with her, including Los Angeles Councilman Kenneth Hahn (back row, wearing glasses).
Typescript on front of award: The People of the County of Los Angeles in Appreciation of the dedicated, unselfish, and untiring efforts of Mrs. Betty Hill in civic and community affairs for the good of all people and especially for her leadership in all of the major improvements at Will Rogers Park including the fine new swimming pool.
Type
image
Identifier
uclalsc_1889_b25_f08_003.tif
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Subject
Clubwomen
African American civic leaders
African American civil rights workers
City council members
Hill, Betty, 1876-1960
Hahn, Kenneth
Source
Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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