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Honoring the legacy and 200th birthday of slave-turned-entrepreneur Biddy Mason

  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,…

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