The Historian · Zoe · Los Angeles
Biddy Mason Memorial Park
This is the most important site in Los Angeles that nobody can find. It's in an alley. It's serious history left in a place the city couldn't be bothered to feature.
A small alley park behind a Broadway parking garage marks the homesite of Biddy Mason — an enslaved woman who won her freedom in 1856 and became one of Los Angeles's first significant Black landowners.
— Zoe, The Historian
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