Silvia Lacy was born in Los Angeles, California in 1948 and grew up on 51st and Main St, which is where Silvia’s parents Emiel and Elizabeth (Jeanie) owned and ran Reasonable Cleaners. Silvia’s parents moved to the East side of Los Angeles during the Great Migration to flee racial discrimination. Her mother passed away when […]
Cliff Johson grew up in Abilene, Texas in a working-class, segregated Black community. He attended Carter G. Woodson Junior Senior high school where he was an honor student and class president. At twelve years old, after being given a tour of the bank where his mother worked as a cook, Cliff decided that he wanted […]
Ozie Gonzaque and her four sisters grew up in Louisiana where her grandfather worked as a farmer and her father worked as a laborer for a gas station. While her parents were respected in the community, after an incident where her father couldn’t get the deed to his own property, the family decided to move […]