Hey, what's up? It's Gustavo Ariano.

In celebration of Juneteenth, this week, we're running some of our favorite episodes about the Black experience.

And today, we've got one from last September.

It's hosted by my LA Times colleague, Features writer Jeanette Marantos,

and she takes us from modern-day Southern California,

back to 1860s, Massachusetts and Maryland,

for a look at an unsung civil rights hero.

I'm Jeanette Morantos.

You're listening to The Times,

Daily News from the L.A. Times.

We hear on this auspicious occasion to dedicate the grave marking, the headstone of this great freedom fighter.

In the northwest corner of Altadena's Mountain View Cemetery, one of L.A.'s oldest

graveyards.

About 100 people are praying over a new headstone, marking the spot where black educator

and activist Ellen Garrison Clark laid unsung and forgotten for 129 years. While Ms. Clark is only now being

recognized in this fashion, let me tell you, her reward has already been laid up for her in a place

where it can never be denied, in a place where it can never be taken away.

It's a hot sunny day in Altadena, a community nestled on the foothills in the San Gabriel Mountains,

about 20 miles northeast of Los Angeles.

Areas of this city were exempt from redlining, which kept African Americans

from owning homes in many parts of Southern California. I found out about Clark by accident

while mining the internet for Juneteenth events around L.A. The notice from the Altadena Historical Society was just a few sentences long,

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