In 1889, Robert A. Clark, an African American entrepreneur, arrives in Seattle. Clark operates a drayage and delivery service out of his office at 2nd Avenue and Madison Street.
African American entrepreneur Robert A. Clark arrives in Seattle in 1889.
- By Helen Lacy
- Posted 11/07/1998
- HistoryLink.org Essay 258
Sources:
Quintard Taylor, The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (Seattle: University of Washngton Press, 1994).