<i>Los Angeles Sentinal</i> publisher Ruth Washington stands at the podium during the fourth annual African American Living Legends Series program at A C Bilbrew Library. Other honorees included contralto Marian Anderson, White House seamstress and housemaid Lillian Rogers Parks, civil rights activist Rosa Parks, education reformer Marnesba Tackett, singer Sarah Vaughan, and Los Angeles leader Vassie Wright.
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