AAHB PASADENA AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

She was the first African American woman doctor and President of the N.A.A.C.P.

• Loretta Glickman

• Edna Griffin

• Ralph Riddle

• Zephyr Ramsey

In 1929, he was the first African American to run for political office in Pasadena City Government.

• Loretta Glickman

• Clarence Jones

• Kristina Kaye Smith

• Zephyr Ramsey

In 1984, she was chosen Queen of the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena. She was the first African American queen in the 96-year history of the New Year’s Day event.

• Loretta Glickman

• Joseph Holmes

• Kristina Kaye Smith

• Zephyr Ramsey

The first African American female attorney in California was a resident of Pasadena.

• Loretta Glickman

• Joseph Holmes

• Kristina Kaye Smith

• Zephyr Ramsey,

She was elected by her fellow Board members as Mayor of Pasadena in 1982, the first African American woman mayor of the city.

• Loretta Glickman

• Joseph Holmes

• Kristina Kaye Smith

• Zephyr Ramsey,

The Franciscan Building on Dayton Street in Pasadena became the first African American business building built by one of the first African American real estate brokers in the city, in 1923.

• James Phillips

• Clarence Jones

• Ralph Riddle

• Zephyr Ramsey,

He was the first African American to come to live in Pasadena, 1883.

• Loretta Glickman

• Joseph Holmes

• Kristina Kaye Smith

• Zephyr Ramsey,

In 1887, the first African American church in

Pasadena, chartered in 1888.

• First A.M.E. Church

• Brookside

  Pool Suit

• Franciscan Building on Dayton Street

• Jacque Robinson

In 1936, a suit was brought against the City of Pasadena by the NAACP to allow African American people to use the facility whenever it was open. The case was won by the NAACP in 1945.

• First A.M.E. Church

• Brookside

  Pool Suit

• Franciscan Building on Dayton Street

• Jacque Robinson

She was the first African American female Pasadena Police Commander and the first female sergeant to successfully complete Special Weapons and Tactics Team training (SWAT school).

• Cheryl Moody

• Henderson Boone

• Jacque Robinson

• Zephyr Ramsey