By Michael Livingston Aug. 18, 2018 Cheryl Cox remembers as a child standing in front of the wall honoring her great-great-great-great-grandmother Biddy Mason, a former slave who became a wealthy landowner, a noted philanthropist and a key founder of the first African American Church in Los Angeles. On Saturday morning, Alicia Randall, an Altadena Girl Scout,…
From 1900-1914 J.L. Edmonds owned and operated The Liberator newspaper ... Click here.
Panel discussion about the many contributions African-American residents, such as Biddy Mason, have made to the history of Los Angeles. Sherwin “Keith” Rice, a historian and archivist at the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center located at CSUN, provides the historical context for the panel discussion, which is moderated by Tyree Boyd-Pates, curator at the California…
The Homestead’s purpose statement is short and succinct: creating advocates for history through the stories of greater Los Angeles. Click here.
“The open hand is blessed, for it gives in abundance, even as it receives.” Biddy Mason, Former Slave and Pioneering Entrepreneur. Click here.
California is finally confronting its history of slavery. Click here.