From Pasadena Star-News:
Scattergood was the appropriately named organization for African-American children in Pasadena. It was founded by one woman, Mae Reese Johnson.
Mae Reese Johnson was born in Atlanta. Her father had been born a slave. She was educated in a Methodist mission school, graduated from Clark University, taught at Clark and then ran kindergartens for a Tuskegee University extension program.
She married Master Sergeant George Johnson of the United States Army and after some time in Asia, they retired to Pasadena in 1926 to a cottage at 913 N. Orange Grove.
She saw children of working mothers needed assistance, and created a center for them. It grew into the Scattergood Club and included older children as well.
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