Members of the Pi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority at Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, 1925-1935 (2024)

Title

Members of the Pi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority at Santa Monica Beach, Santa Monica, 1925-1935

Alternative Title

Delta Sigma Theta, Los Angeles chapters

Date Created and/or Issued

[1925-1935]
1925/1935

Contributing Institution

UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection

Rights Information

spec-coll@library.ucla.edu

Description

Vivian "Vina" Johnson was the president of the League of Allied Arts for many years.
Marian Robinson McCard was an education major and teacher in Los Angeles.
Miriam Matthews was hired as the first African American librarian in the Los Angeles Public Library in 1927. Matthews was also a civil rights activist, historian, and collector of African American art and primary source materials. She was the sister of businesswoman Ella Matthews and lawyer Charles Matthews
Hebe Mack Robinson was the first black woman probation officer in Los Angeles County.
E. Gertrude Chrisman attended the State University of Idaho and the University of Puget Sound. She homesteaded a tract of land in Idaho for two years to gain ownership, then moved with her family to Los Angeles and sold the land. With the proceeds, she purchased an apartment building. She attended the California State Normal School (later, the University of California at Los Angeles), graduated in March 1916, and became a teacher. She was principal of Booker T. Washington school in El Centro in the Imperial Valley for two years (spending summers with her family in Los Angeles, studying Spanish and other subjects) and then taught at the Palo Verde School in the North Broadway district of Los Angeles with eight white teachers. (Gertrude L Beasley, Negro Trail Blazers of California, 1919, p. 236).
Marion Carter Moore was the first president of the Delta Sigma Theta chapter, and a teacher, in Los Angeles.
Marian Robinson McCard was an education major and teacher.
Written on back of photo: Members of Pi Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, at Santa Monica Beach. From left: Hebe Mack Robinson, Marion Carter Moore, Miriam Matthews, Gertrude Chrisman and Angie B. Harrison Nicholas. From left: Standing Vina Johnson and Marian Robinson McCard.

Type

image

Identifier

uclalsc_1889_b24_f08_008a.tif
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Subject

African American Greek letter societies
Moore, Marion Carter
Johnson, Vivian
Nicholas, Angie Bell Harrison, 1905-1994
McCard, Marian Edith Robinson, 1905-1987
Matthews, Miriam
Chrisman, E. Gertrude (Edna Gertrude), 1892-1966
Robinson, Hebe Mack, 1895-1971
Delta Sigma Theta Sorority

Source

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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