Ellen Garrison Clark was an African American educator, abolitionist and early Civil Rights activist whose defiance of “whites only” public spaces has been compared by some to Rosa Park’s actions in the 20^th century.  She died on December 21, 1892, at the age of 69, and was buried in an unmarked grave at Mountain View Cemetery in Altadena. 

Charles White moved to Los Angeles for its mild climate in 1956 and eventually to Altadena. Following his death in 1979, a local park was named after him.

Bob Lucas: A Black Gladiator for Literacy