Matthews (Miriam) papers, 1845-1988, bulk 1920-1980.

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Matthews (Miriam) papers, 1845-1988, bulk 1920-1980.

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Collection consists of clippings, correspondence, photographs, reports, ephemera, and other materials relating to intellectual freedom; Matthews' work at Los Angeles Public Library; her involvement with professional, civic, community, and historical organizations; and her research on African American and California history. The collection is especially strong in materials about Titus Alexander, Ralph J. Bunche, Mary Ellen Pleasant, and William Grant Still.

19 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)2 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7154019

University of California, Los Angeles

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Matthews, Miriam

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Librarian. From the description of Reminiscences of Miriam Matthews : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308349 Miriam Matthews (1905-2003), the first credentialed African-American librarian in the state of California, was a librarian at Los Angeles Public Library (1927-1960), a historian of African American and California history, and an active member of the American and California Library Associations' Committees on In...

Still, William Grant, 1895-1978

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Composer; d. 1978. From the description of William Grant Still papers, 1937-1969. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70972606 Epithet: composer and conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000212 William Grant Still was a prominent African-American composer. Verna Arvey, Still's wife, was a journalist and musician who collaborated with her husband on many compositions. ...

Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson), 1904-1971

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Ralph Bunche was Secretary of United Nations. From the description of Letter (typewritten) to Abraham Stavsky, 1967, February 28. (Regent University). WorldCat record id: 49291995 Ralph Johnson Bunche b 1904; educated at University of California, Los Angeles (AB), Harvard University (AM, PhD); Chairman, Dept of Political Science, Howard University, Washington DC, 1928-1950; Director, Trusteeship Department, Unted Nations, 1946-1954; acting UN Mediator on Palestine, 1948-1949...