Image / Reverend Thomas Lee Griffith, Sr., Los Angeles, 1920-1940

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Title: Reverend Thomas Lee Griffith, Sr., Los Angeles, 1920-1940
Alternative Title: Second Baptist Church, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920/1940
[1920-1940]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Thomas Lee Griffith was the pastor of the Second Baptist Church from 1921 to 1940. When Griffith led the campaign to build a larger church (Griffith Ave. and 24th St.), he hired African-American architect Paul R. Williams and black-owned construction businesses. The new building opened in 1925.
Portrait photograph of Reverend Thomas Lee Griffith.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b18_f04_003a.tif
ark:/21198/z1ww91th
Subject: African American clergy
Second Baptist Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Griffith, Thomas L. (Thomas Lee), Sr., 1872-1940
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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