Craig Sailor | The Seattle Times

Tacoma’s first black mayor, Harold Moss, holds a portrait of Barack Obama, the first African-American president , part of a collection of images and mementos that hang in a room of the Moss household reserved for the 44th president and his family. Moss, a former head of the local NAACP chapter and a civil rights activist says he isolated himself at home on election night in 2008. “I was scared and I wanted to be by myself. I just did not want to experience what it would be like to have him (Obama) fail,” said Moss. “The part of it that really just broke me up was we always talk about standing on each others shoulders. Well on that night I could feel the weight of the president on my shoulders. That I had been part of what had brought that about,” Moss said Jan. 12, 2017.

September 22, 2020 at 4:50 pm

Harold Moss, first Black mayor of Tacoma, dies at 90

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Riders come and go at the Tacoma Link light rail platform at the Tacoma Dome Station, Dec. 14, 2016. Sound Transit has dropped, for now, a plan to begin calling the Tacoma Link the Orange Line. PETER HALEY NEWS TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO, 2016

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Manny Santiago is the executive director of the state’s LGBTQ Commission and former director of Tacoma’s Rainbow Center.

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