In the early 1950s, Seattle’s annual Seafair celebration included an International Festival. Seattle's Filipino, Black, Chinese and Japanese communities each selected a royal court to represent them for the festival, and floats would carry the Queen and her princesses in the International Parade.

Here, the Queen and four princesses representing Seattle Black community sit in a parade car during an International Parade. Their unidentified driver stands outside the car. The building at right in the background is the Seattle Japanese Methodist Church at 1236 S. Washington Street. The women are identified from left as, Beverly (Washington) Kelly, Gertrude (Johnson) Peoples, Vivian (Meade) Caver, Teresa (Miller) Frank, and Leonella Lombard.