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Title: Johnny Mathis, Roy Wilkins, and four other men, Los Angeles, 1961
Alternative Title: Jazz and Popular Music vocalists
Contributor: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Group portrait of a young Johnny Mathis, (center) with Roy Wilkins (third from left) and 4 other men.
Roy Ottoway Wilkins was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement from the 1930s to the 1970s. As a member of the NAACP he contributed to the successful outcomes of Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
John Royce "Johnny" Mathis is a singer of popular music with several gold and platinum albums. Mathis received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Written on back of photo: Johnny Mathis (wearing white coat). Photographer's stamp: Please Credit Photo / by / Harry H. Adams / 4223 So. Avalon Blvd. AD 2-9497. Date stamp: Oct. 1-1961
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b22_f13_001a.tif
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Subject: African American singers
African American civil rights workers
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981
Mathis, Johnny
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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