For 129 years, Black educator and activist Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark laid unsung and forgotten in an unmarked grave in Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery. Last month, a granite headstone was unveiled at the long-neglected grave.
This is the paper passport that was issued to Ellen Garrison Clark in 1854, by Massachusetts Judge Ebenezer Hoar of Concord, a passport “to travel to Virginia and other states of the United States.”
“I told him in a very decided manner he would not do it,” she wrote. “He then passed on. I have found one thing about these people; if they attack you, be careful to stand your ground and they will leave you, but if you run they will follow.”Her courage “is just so powerful,” said Davis, a professor of Africana studies at Savannah State University in Georgia. “She had this voice, and the strength to stand up to racism even in the hostile South.
Clark’s employer in Baltimore encouraged her to pursue a suit."...He wishes to ascertain whether respectable people have rights which are to be respected,” she wrote. “Thus you see it will be a question of much importance. It will not benefit us merely as such ... but it will be a stand for others.”Clark and Anderson wanted the station master, Adam Smyzer, held accountable, saying he
That legal gambit paid off in two ways. “Maryland’s all-white juries would have been unlikely to convict,” said University of Maryland School of Law Professor David Bogen, author of But the digitization of records has been a boon to historians and, slowly, a fragmented picture of Clark’s life has emerged.
Hannigan also learned that in 1881, at the age of 58, she married Harvey Clark, a Black homesteader and widower from South Carolina. For years, the society had discussed ways of documenting the entire community’s history — not just the white folks’ — without any actual action, said Jean Phillips, a steering committee member. And then came the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, and the nationwide wave of Black Lives Matter protests that followed.something, and I was very anxious for us to be a part of that positive reaction,” Phillips said.
The society’s steering committee wanted to buy a headstone for Clark immediately, but Altadena Town Council Vice Chair Veronica Jones, one of the historical society’s few Black members, intervened. She saw an opportunity. “My daughter would say it’s like karma,” Jones said. “It just all came together, like it was meant to be.”Mountain View holds the graves of many notables — author Octavia Butler, activist Eldridge Cleaver, physicist Richard Feynman and actor George Reeves to name a few.Local historians and residents celebrate the life of Ellen Garrison Clark, who was buried in an unmarked grave.
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