[2] After moving to Washington, Ali worked as a teller at Industrial Bank, a historic Black owned business.

[3] It was there that she met husband Ben Ali when he visited the bank to deposit money from a local restaurant where he worked.

The restaurant became a favorite late-night gathering place for the likes of Duke Ellington, Dinah Washington and Redd Foxx.

[6] Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Stokely Carmichael often ate together at the Chili Bowl.

[7] During the 1968 Washington, D.C., riots after the death of King, Ali kept the Chili Bowl open at the request of Stokely Carmichael.