Studio portrait of Margaret D. Scott. Typescript on back: Mrs. Scott was born and reared in Atlanta, Georgia. After a few years of married life she and her husband decided to move to Los Angeles during the 1890s. Shortly after the turn of the century they built Scott's Hall where most of the fraternal and social meetings were held. Mrs. Scott became one of the founders of the Sojourner Truth Industrial Club in 1904 and was its president in 1913 when they erected their first clubhouse on East Adams Blvd. During her long life she raised more money than any other member for this club and its four clubhouses. The NAACP was another of her per projects and in the late twenties she raised more money with two baby contests for this organization than any other single individual up to that time. She was 106 years old when she died in 1969.
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African American civic leaders Scott, Margaret D., 1862-1969
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