The Black-Korean conflict was an enduring storyline during the violence that erupted in 1992 after four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King. It was a palatable narrative of racial conflict in which white racism was not directly implicated.
Biddy Mason and Dolores Huerta were trailblazers of their times. They are part of the Women's March Foundation's Feminist Street Initiative to rename streets across the nation after women who paved the way for equality and recognition throughout history.
Not long after they got married in the early 1990s, Sharon Kelly-North and her new husband, David North, were invited to Sharon s grandmother s tidy brick home in Seattle.
Mattie Lyle was almost in her 90s by then and likely inspired by a photo slideshow the newlyweds had recently put together she enlisted them to help her go through a hat box filled with old photographs of her own.
After being a hobbyist photographer for most of her life, Mattie had stacks of old snapshots to sort through black-and-white remnants of a life well-lived.
Somewhere in the box, there was a photo that showed Mattie and her late husband, William Lyle, in the 1930s or 1940s back when they lived in Fort Collins, Colorado gathered with friends during a visit to Denver.