Pasadena Gets to Spotlight Its Role in Race Relations

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Mention Pasadena's history, and most people come up with the 119- year-old Tournament of Roses, the Rose Bowl, Old Pasadena and maybe Greene & Greene Craftsman architecture.

Not too many recall it was the first city in the nation in the early 1970s, to use busing as a way of integrating schools; that in 1982, Loretta Glickman became the first African-American woman to be the mayor of a city with a population over 100,000; that its NAACP chapter dates to 1909; that the Rev. Martin Luther King spoke at Friendship Baptist Church; or that brothers Mack and Jackie Robinson grew up here: one a hero of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the other the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.

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Pasadena Gets to Spotlight Its Role in Race Relations

In choosing Pasadena as the venue for this week's three-day annual meeting of the West Coast Black Publishers Association, President Joe Hopkins hopes to demonstrate how m...

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