George Garner
George R. Garner was a musician, singer, actor, educator and advocate for the study of African American music history. He was born in...
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Robert Owens
Robert Owens owned the land where the Rose Bowl is today. Robert Owens was born into slavery on a cotton plantation in Texas in 1806. He...
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Mae Reese Johnson, The Scattergood school
Born in Atlanta, GA, to a father who was a slave, Mae Reese Johnson was educated in a Methodist mission school, graduated from Clark...
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Dr. Edna L. Griffin and Robert S Whittaker
Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Dr. Edna L. Griffin (1905-1992) moved to Pasadena in 1935 and became Pasadena’s first black female...
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James and Annie Mae Woods
James and Annie Mae Woods opened the James Woods Funeral Parlor in 1928. Today it is one of the oldest black-owned and operated...
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Octavia Butler
Octavia E. Butler was born in Pasadena in 1947 and lived in Pasadena and LA for most of her life before moving to Washington state where...
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Loretta Thompson-Glickman and Clarence A. Jones Black
Loretta Thompson-Glickman (1945 – 2001) became the first Black woman mayor of Pasadena in 1982, but she had a few other firsts before...
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Mack Robinson
Matthew MacKenzie "Mack" Robinson (1914 – 2000), a graduate of Muir High School, was an American track and field athlete best known...
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Jack Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson (1919 – 1972), became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball , breaking the baseball...
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