Will L.A.’s Fires Permanently Disperse the Black Families of Altadena?
The first member of the Benn family to settle in Altadena, California, was Charles Benn, who had grown up outside of Atlanta and served in the Korean War. In the late nineteen-fifties, Charles was transferred by the Army to California and bought a house on Glenrose Avenue, north of Loma Alta Drive.