Sadie Chandler Cole

Sadie Chandler Cole (1865 – 1941) was an American singer, music educator, and civil rights activist based in southern California.

[5] She broke dishes and removed a "Negroes Not Wanted" sign from a lunchstand on Broadway in Los Angeles in the 1920s,[6] after she was refused service, then egregiously overcharged.

[7] In 1926, she sang at the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs special memorial service for Margaret Murray Washington.

[8] She was one of four women (also including Hettie B. Tilghman) selected by Mary McLeod Bethune to represent the national association at the Pan-Pacific Conference in Hawaii in 1928.

Her gravesite is in Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, where she has been portrayed in "living history" tours in recent years.