Hawthorne
“I have to say Martin Luther King because of the struggles he went through for all African Americans, but yet the struggle is not over. It continues to this day.”
Juanita Terry-Grey
Los Angeles
“Pearl Bailey was my cousin and she was one of my favorites. She never trained formally, but she was dynamic in the entertainment business.”
J’Tasha St. Cyr
Los Angeles
“Barack Obama. He was the first African-American president. He changed the narrative of African Americans seeing ourselves as leaders of the free world.”
Milton Ward
Los Angeles
“Malcolm X. He said ‘By any means necessary.’ That made an impact. That’s how we still need to be.”
Compiled by Cynthia Gibson at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza.
