She was the Rosa Parks of her day. 129 years ago, Black educator and activist Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark was buried in an unmarked grave in Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery and forgotten.

ALTADENA, Calif. — For 129 years, Black educator and activist Ellen Garrison Jackson Clark laid unsung and forgotten in an unmarked grave in Altadena’s Mountain View Cemetery. She was the ...

The ‘Rosa Parks of Concord MA,’ discovered in an unmarked grave in Altadena 129 years after her death It was recently revealed that Ellen Garrison Clark was laid to rest in Altadena’s ...

Philadelphia’s “Rosa Parks” no longer has an unmarked grave. A tombstone was dedicated Saturday for Caroline LeCount in Eden Cemetery in Collingdale.

“Caroline LeCount was the Rosa B. Parks of Philadelphia roughly 100 years earlier and we found out there was no tombstone,” said Leo Vacarro, a history teacher at St. Joseph’s Preparatory ...