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Group portrait of the Congregation of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1961

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Title: Group portrait of the Congregation of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, 1961
Alternative Title: First A.M.E. Church groups and individuals at 8th and Towne
Date Created and/or Issued: July 09, 1961
1961-07-09
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Hamel Hartford Brookins was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for 30 years and a civil rights activist. He helped start and was president of the United Civil Rights Council, which helped the black community recover from the Watts riots in 1965. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he was an articulate, self-assured champion of black political empowerment.
Group portrait of the congregation of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church for, about 50 people grouped together on the front steps wearing formal church attire. Pastor Hamel Hartford Brookins, (front, far left) is wearing a pastor's robe.
Written on back of photo: First A.M.E. church - 8th and Towne. Rev. H.H. Brookins-at left in front row with other church members. photo by Harry H. Adams. Courtesy: Miriam Mathews. July 9, 1961
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b17_f13_002a.tif
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Subject: African Methodist Episcopal Church--Bishops
African American churches
African Methodist Episcopal Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Brookins, H. H. (Hamel Hartford), 1925-2012
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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