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Title
1964 debutantes : Twentieth Century Onyx Club, Oxnard ; first row L to R: Vickey Banks, Betty Marie Decquir ; second row L to R: Gwendolyn Jean Tatum, Claudette Marie Lyghts, Donna Jo Cottry ; third row L to R: Mildred Virginia White, Deidre Gail Wilkes, and Martha Velverlee Cameron ; also introduced was Patricia Ann Hudson.
Date
1964
Description
Eight teen debutantes in formals, Twentieth Century Onyx Club, Oxnard. Pictured are: Vickey Banks, Betty Marie Decquir, Gwendolyn Jean Tatum, Claudette Marie Lyghts, Donna Jo Cottry, Mildred Virginia White, Deidre Gail Wilkes, and Martha Velverlee Cameron. Image originally obtained from Mattie Adams.
Title
A gathering at a Santa Barbara home in 1926 ; civic leader Pearl Chase is standing third from right.
Date
1926
Description
In front of a Santa Barbara home, a group of black leaders gather including civic leader Pearl Chase, third from right on porch, considered to be the mother of the American Riviera look. 1926. Image originally obtained from UCSB Department of Special Collections.
Title
A gathering at Avila Beach : 1945.
Date
1945
Description
At Avila Beach, a group of about 14 people sit or stand in the sand near pipes. Image originally obtained from Lonnie Westbury.
Title
A good basketball player, a good student, Keith (later Jamaal) Wilkes ; Wilkes maintained a 3.8 grade point average throughout high school ; his professional career began with the Golden State Warriors ; he then played for the Lakers.
Date
1960s
Description
Two high school basketball players are on the court during a game. The taller player, Keith Jamaal Wilkes, who is dribbling the ball is from Santa Barbara High School. The score board indicates14 points for the home team and 17 for the challenger. Image originally obtained from Santa Barbara High School.
Title
Arthur J. Brown at La Brea Ranch : 1945.
Date
1945
Description
Arthur J. Brown stands in overalls and brimmed hat at La Brea Ranch. Hill is in background. Image originally obtained from Lonnie Westbury.
Title
Associated ministers and their wives and lay ministers, all participated in a special ceremony of the Coast Counties Baptist Bible Institute, Second Baptist Church, Paso Robles in 1959.
Date
1959
Description
Group portrait of 16 adults and one toddler in front of stage at the Second Baptist Church in Paso Robles. They represent the associated ministers and their wives and the lay ministers. Image originally obtained from the John Cullors Family.
Title
Associated ministers, Second Baptist Church, Paso Robles : 1959 ; In this group are Reverend L. C. Blackburn, Reverend Vern Haynes, Reverend Henry Edwards, and Reverend Cecil Parish.
Date
1959
Description
Reverend L. C. Blackburn, Reverend Vern Haynes, Reverend Henry Edwards, and Reverend Cecil Parish, Associated Ministers of the Second Baptist Church in Paso Robles, stand wearing suits in front of a stage at the Second Baptist Church in Paso Robles. Image originally obtained from the John Cullors Family.
Title
Avila Beach : 1946 ; Jeannie Berneham, Bozie, Mabel Woodfort.
Date
1946
Description
Three women and boy stand at Avila Beach. Image originally obtained from Lonnie Westbury.
Title
Avila Beach : 1955.
Date
1955
Description
Six people sit close together on the sand near pilings at Avila Beach. Image originally obtained from Juanita Prince.
Title
Base of radio tower ; Bernie Dacus and Phil Wilson, Bull Canyon Road.
Date
undated : circa 1960s
Description
Bernie Dacus and Phil Wilson shake hands under a radio tower on Bull Canyon Road. Image originally obtained from Phil Wilson.
Title
Bedford and Forrest Pinkard at home, 405 East Second St., Oxnard : 1947 ; Bedford Pinkard later became the first African-American elected official in the tri-counties with his election to Oxnard Union High School District Board in 1973.
Date
1947
Description
Well dressed and smiling young men, Bedford and Forrest Pinkard, stand in their yard at 405 East Second Street in Oxnard. Image originally obtained from Bedford Pinkard.
Title
Bedford Pinkard in Wilson Junior High School, Oxnard : 1945 ; a resident of Ventura County since 1942, Bedford Pinkard was installed as the first African-American elected to the Oxnard City Council in November 1992.
Date
1945
Description
Close up portrait of teenager Bedford Pinkard who wears a buttoned shirt. Image originally obtained from Bedford Pinkard.
Title
Bernise Turner and friends, Waller Park, Santa Maria : 1945.
Date
1945
Description
Bernise Turner and friends sit or stand around a picnic table near a smoking fire pit at Waller Park, Santa Maria. Image originally obtained from Lonnie Westbury.
Title
Bernise Turner and Samuel Hamilton, Rosemary Farms : 1946.
Date
1946
Description
Bernise Turner and Samuel Hamilton stand outside and hold hands. There is a field in the background. Image originally obtained from Lonnie Westbury.
Title
Bethel A.M.E. Church Board of Stewards, Oxnard : 1967 ; front row l. to r.: Reverend C. N. Austin, L. W. Robinson, Anthony Webb, Dee Pinkard, Ruth David; Back row L. to R.: Albert Duff, Bobby Adams, James Kelley.
Date
1967
Description
7 men and 1 woman of the Bethel A.M.E. Church Board of Stewards stand in 2 rows in front of partially draped wall. Image originally obtained from Albert Duff.
Title
Bethel A.M.E. Church Board of Trustees, Oxnard : 1967 ; l. to r. Will Brown, Clinton Strozier, Hesterly Hankins, A. J. Towler, Clinton Tatum, Rozell Gaines, Tempest Holloway, Adele Pinkard, Walter Reddick, Garvey Wilson. Standing in back: Reverend C. N. Austin.
Date
1967
Description
8 men and 3 women of the Bethel A.M.E. Church Board of Trustees stand in front of partially draped wall. Image originally obtained from Albert Duff.
Title
Bethel A.M.E. Church Cathedral Choir : 1967 ; Oxnard.
Date
1967
Description
Group portrait of 14 Bethel A.M.E, Church Cathedral Choir members in front of partially draped wall. Image originally obtained from Albert Duff.
Title
Bethel A.M.E. Church, Oxnard, Sunday School : 1967 ; Reverend C. N. Austin.
Date
1967
Description
Group portrait of Sunday School children and adults standing in front of Bethel A.M.E. Church. Car's grill seen at right. Image originally obtained from Albert Duff.
Title
Bill Bush with the plane of Allan Hancock College of Aeronautics, Santa Maria : 1946.
Date
1946
Description
Bill Bush stands on ground near the door steps of an airplane, Allan Hancock College of Aeronautics, Santa Maria.
Title
Camp Cooke, Santa Maria Airport : 1948.
Date
1948
Description
Boy stands in school clothes in boxing pose in front of building at Camp Cooke. Image originally obtained from Juanita Prince.
Title
Choir of San Luis Obispo Springfield Baptist Church : 1968.
Date
1968
Description
Group portrait of Choir of San Luis Obispo Springfield Baptist Church. Image originally obtained from John Anderson.
Title
Choir of the Bethel Church of God in Christ giving a Christmas program at a Montecito , California home in the 1950s.
Date
1950s
Description
Group portrait of 17 Bethel Church of God choir members who perform a Christmas program at a Montecito home. Image originally obtained from Willie M. Rowan.
Title
Chorro Street building site, San Luis Obispo. The church did not get permission to build on this site.
Date
undated
Description
Vacant lot with signs, "Future home of Springfield Baptist Church." Image originally obtained from John Anderson.
Title
Christmas Play, St. Paul Baptist Church : 1965.
Date
1965
Description
Seven Christmas play actors sit toward back of room. A few audience members can be seen seated in the foreground. Image originally obtained from Phil Wilson.
Title
Clarence Jones, Farm Labor Center : 1950s.
Date
1950s
Description
Clarence Jones walks on a parking lot near a car; barrack-like Farm Labor Center buildings and trees are in the background. Image originally obtained from Phil Wilson.
Title
Clifton Tatum Family, Oxnard : February 1957 ; Clifton was superintendent at juvenile hall, Ventura, later renamed the Clifton Tatum Center. His wife, Frances, was the first black dietician in Ventura County. Son, Clifton, Jr. (on left), a parole officer of California Youth Authority, Camarillo. Son, Lucius G. Tatum (right) ran a video and film production company in Camarillo.
Date
1957
Description
Informal family portrait of Clifton and Frances Tatum seated, with each holding a son. Drapery fills the background. Image originally obtained from Mrs. Frances J. Tatum.
Title
Combined choir of old St. Paul Baptist Church, Oxnard, and Olivet Baptist Church, Ventura : 1946.
Date
1946
Description
Group portrait of combined choir of old St. Paul Baptist Church, Oxnard, and Olivet Baptist Church, Ventura. Image originally obtained from Tempest Holloway.
Title
Contestants for 1969 Miss Teen Cotton Queen : Queen reigned at the Cotton Ball, sponsored by the Twentieth Century Onyx Club.
Date
1969
Description
Four young women contestants for the 1969 Miss Teen Cotton Queen wear identical dresses and stand near a large flowering plant. Image originally obtained from Ventura County Museum of History and Art.
Title
Dance for African American enlisted personnel at Camp Rousseau Seabee Camp at Port Hueneme : September 1943 ; at this time the dances were segregated.
Date
1943 September
Description
An enlisted man dances with a young woman while sailors in the background watch at Camp Rousseau Seabee Camp at Port Hueneme. Image originally obtained from NAVFAC Archives, U.S. Navy, Port Hueneme.
Title
Deacon Brown with his wife Clincy and Deacon Sirls with his wife Williea, St. Paul Baptist Church : 1950.
Date
1950
Description
Deacon and Clincy Brown and Deacon and Williea Sirls stand outside, St. Paul Baptist Church. Image originally obtained from Phil Wilson.
Title
Du Mont Gospel Singers, San Luis Obispo Springfield Baptist Church ; front row: Flo Douglas and Virginia Norman ; back row: Garnett Hopkins, Jr., W. Norman and John Anderson.
Date
circa 1960s
Description
Group portrait of 5 Du Mont Gospel Singers, Flo Douglas, Virginia Norman, Garnett Hopkins, Jr., W. Norman and John Anderson. San Luis Springfield Baptist Church. Image originally obtained from John Anderson family.
Title
Early workers at Olivet Baptist Church, Ventura ; L to R: Annie Walker, Bevvie May Bryant, Marguerite Milton, Letha Moore, Iranna Smith, Annie Smith and her sister Cerisa Westly, the last two being among the founders of the church.
Date
circa 1940s
Description
Seven female workers sit around a table at Olivet Baptist Church, Ventura. Image originally obtained from Yvette Sutton.
Title
Eddie Mae Foster : Waller Park : 1951.
Date
1951
Description
Girl stands in front of pond at Waller Park, evergreens in background, shoes on ground
Title
Elizabeth Jones, Nipomo : 1959.
Date
1959
Description
A young woman, Elizabeth Jones, stands near a mailbox. Image originally obtained from Juanita Prince.
Title
Ellen and Ed Foster at Airbase, Santa Maria : 1948.
Date
1948
Description
Ed Foster wraps his arms around Ellen Foster in field at Santa Maria Airbase. Another woman and dog stand in background.
Title
Ernest E. "Gene" Brown, Executive Chef at the County General Hospital from 1946 until the 1970s.
Date
circa 1960s
Description
Chef Ernest E. Gene Brown looks at worktable where Styrofoam bowls and other items sit. Foam ice chest with metal handles is to his right. Image originally obtained from Yvette Sutton.
Title
Ernestine Black, Avila Beach : 1945
Date
1945
Description
Ernestine Black sits on front fender of vintage car at Avila Beach. Image originally obtained from Lonnie Westbury.
Title
Estar and Roosevelt Campbell, Guadalupe Park : 1946.
Date
1946
Description
Estar and Roosevelt Campbell stand in a dynamic pose near the driver's side of a sedan at Guadalupe Park. Trees and building are in the background. Image originally obtained from Lonnie Westbury.
Title
Estella and Luther Bines. Luther arrived in California in April 1942 - in the U.S. Army's coastal artillery. He was assigned to the town of Avila, now Avila Beach, for a few months. Estella left their home in Georgia to join him in September. They continued to make their home in San Luis Obispo. Luther is deceased - 1990.
Date
undated : circa 1940s
Description
Close up photograph of Estella and Luther Bines. He wears military uniform with hat and she wears a blouse and blazer with wide lapels and broad brimmed hat. Image originally obtained from Dr. Dan Krieger
Title
Eulamae Whiteside Gatewood pinning Eagle Scout badge on Leander Gatewood, Santa Maria's first black Eagle Scout, at a meeting of the Sea Explorer Scouts at the American Legion Hall in 1950.
Date
1950
Description
Three uniformed Scouts including Eagle Scout Leander Gatewood, are each being pinned by older women, e.g. Eulamae Whiteside Gatewood, at a meeting of the Sea Explorer Scouts at the American Legion Hall. Leander was Santa Maria's first black Eagle Scout. Image originally obtained from the Gatewood family.
Title
Family Reunion : 1960 ; Jones, Hamilton and Foster families at Foster Road next to Waller Park.
Date
1960
Description
Informal indoor group portrait of six women and one man who stand; 3 children are in front. They are attending a Jones, Hamilton and Foster families' reunion at Foster Road near Waller Park. Image originally obtained from Juanita Prince.
Title
Former Santa Maria airbase living quarters used as farm labor camp for blacks : 1950.
Date
1950s
Description
One car parked in front of modest housing used as farm labor camp on large lot at former Santa Maria airbase living quarters.
Title
Forrest Pinkard, Oxnard, receives Distinguished Citizens Award for 1970 ; Forrest Pinkard came to Oxnard in 1942. He also received the Man of the Year award in 1971.
Date
1970
Description
Four men in suits stand in front of drapery. Two men on left shake hands. Forrest Pinkard, 2nd from viewer's left, holds framed Man of the Year award. Image originally obtained from Tempest Holloway.
Title
Garnett and Lula Bell Hopkins, members of the San Luis Obispo Springfield Baptist Church.
Date
undated : circa 1960s
Description
Garnett and Lula Bell Hopkins wear formal attire and stand arm in arm. Image originally obtained from John Anderson.
Title
George Washington Carver Club, Santa Barbara : 1970 ; among the ladies pictured is Mamie Wilson, founder and first president.
Date
1970
Description
Outdoor group portrait of twenty-six women of the George Washington Carver Club of Santa Barbara. Eight women sit in chairs and eighteen stand behind. Tree branches and fence are in background. Image originally obtained from Laura K. Simmons.
Title
Grace Bumbry, soloist with the Ojai Festival Symphony Orchestra, Aaron Copland conducting: 1960s ; Miss Bumbry has enjoyed a sensational career on the European continent where she has been guest artist with all of the leading opera companies. In 1961, she sang the role of Venus in "Tannhauser" at the Bayreuth Festival and returned yearly to Bayreuth as a guest artist. Miss Bumbry made her New York debut in Carnegie Hall in the fall of 1962 and was well received by the public and the press. Following two concert tours of the United States with guest appearances with the Chicago Lyric Opera Company the critical reviews placed her as one of the great artists of our time.
Date
1960s
Description
Informal portrait looking up at Ojai Festival Symphony Orchestra at rest under a band shell. In foreground with back to camera, Aaron Copland looks at Grace Bumbry. Image originally obtained from Music Academy of the West.
Title
Guadalupe Park : 1946 ; among those present: Estar Campbell, M. and Steve Brown, Lonnie Hamilton, Arthur J. Brown, Ernest Black, Tommie Brown and Ernestine Black.
Date
1946
Description
At Guadalupe Park, group portrait of 8 men and 5 women in front of parked car. Pictured are: Estar Campbell, M. and Steve Brown, Lonnie Hamilton, Arthur J. Brown, Ernest Black, Tommie Brown, Ernestine Black and others unidentified. Image originally obtained from Lonnie Westbury.
Title
Gwen Hopkins : July 1960 ; grandchild of Lula Bell and Garnett Hopkins.
Date
1960 July
Description
Smiling infant Gwen Hopkins wears a diaper and lays on a bed that has a patterned bedspread in a bedroom. Image originally obtained from John Anderson.
Title
Hanging Out, Arnold McCray, Santa Maria : 1946.
Date
1946
Description
From his clothes pinned shirt, a baby, Arnold McCray, hangs from clothesline. Another child walks toward a parked coupe. Barrack type housing in background. Image originally obtained from Lonnie Westbury.
Title
Installation of officers, NAACP Oxnard-Ventura Branch : 1963 ; back row L to R: John Flynn, Fred Jones, Pres., Bert Hammond, Albert Duff, Treas., Jan Kelsey ; seated L to R: Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, May Davis, Secretary.
Date
1963
Description
Officers in business attire sit or stand at Installation of Officers, NAACP, Oxnard-Ventura Branch. Pictured are: John Flynn, President Fred Jones, Bert Hammond, Treasurer Albert Duff, Jan Kelsey, Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, Secretary May Davis. Image originally obtained from by Albert Duff.
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