Studio portrait of Katherine J. Boskins Barr (center) with the daughters of dentist Alva C. Garrott, a Los Angeles dentist who practiced in Los Angeles. The Tuskegee Industrial Welfare League (merged with the National Urban League) was organized in April 1921 in Los Angeles by Dr. A. C. Garrott, a black dentist, and Katherine J. Barr, First Executive Secretary, to help Negroes participate to the fullest extent in American life by helping to change the social and economic conditions of their environment.
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Los Angeles Urban League Barr, Kathryn J. Boskins, 1872-1931
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