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Author | : Robert A. Johnson |
Publisher | : California State University San Bernardino |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Twenty-six edition oral histories of Orange County African-American pioneers from Willis Duffy to the family of Robert Clemons.
Author | : B. Gordon Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780781800747 |
"For black Americans seeking to know more about their ancestry, and for all Americans interested in the black contribution to the development of the United States, Black California is an excellent resource. This pioneer work covers a three-century history of the African-American's vital role in the cultural and commercial development of California - from the Spanish speaking blacks who colonized the California frontier, through the Gold Rush and the freeing of the slaves, to the development of black schools and churches and the establishment of black commercial enterprises."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author | : Alison Rose Jefferson |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1496229061 |
2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.
Author | : Sylvia Alden Roberts |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0595524923 |
Did you know that an estimated 5,000 blacks were an early and integral part of the California Gold Rush? Did you know that black history in California precedes Gold Rush history by some 300 years? Did you know that in California during the Gold Rush, blacks created one of the wealthiest, most culturally advanced, most politically active communities in the nation? Few people are aware of the intriguing, dynamic often wholly inspirational stories of African American argonauts, from backgrounds as diverse as those of their less sturdy- complexioned peers. Defying strict California fugitive slave laws and an unforgiving court testimony ban in a state that declared itself free, black men and women combined skill, ambition and courage and rose to meet that daunting challenge with dignity, determination and even a certain elan, leaving behind a legacy that has gone starkly under-reported. Mainstream history tends to contribute to the illusion that African Americans were all but absent from the California Gold Rush experience. This remarkable book, illustrated with dozens of photos, offers definitive contradiction to that illusion and opens a door that leads the reader into a forgotten world long shrouded behind the shadowy curtains of time."
Author | : Lawrence B. de Graaf |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0295805315 |
From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.
Author | : Lynn M. Hudson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0252052226 |
African Americans who moved to California in hopes of finding freedom and full citizenship instead faced all-too-familiar racial segregation. As one transplant put it, "The only difference between Pasadena and Mississippi is the way they are spelled." From the beaches to streetcars to schools, the Golden State—in contrast to its reputation for tolerance—perfected many methods of controlling people of color. Lynn M. Hudson deepens our understanding of the practices that African Americans in the West deployed to dismantle Jim Crow in the quest for civil rights prior to the 1960s. Faced with institutionalized racism, black Californians used both established and improvised tactics to resist and survive the state's color line. Hudson rediscovers forgotten stories like the experimental all-black community of Allensworth, the California Ku Klux Klan's campaign of terror against African Americans, the bitter struggle to integrate public swimming pools in Pasadena and elsewhere, and segregationists' preoccupation with gender and sexuality.
Author | : Kenneth G. Goode |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Traces the role of blacks in the settlement and development of California from the Spanish era to the present.
Author | : Delilah Leontium Beasley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Danyel Smith |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307421295 |
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing . . . More Like Wrestling is the magnificent debut novel by one of the most acclaimed music journalists of her generation. It tells the story of Pinch and Paige, two sisters coming of age in Oakland, California, in the 1980s, a time when that beautiful, crumbling city is being transformed by tectonic shifts, both literal and figurative. The novel unfolds through the alternating narration of the two sisters: Pinch, quiet and observant, and Paige, louder and wilder but faltering under her facade. The sisters are teenage refugees from a violent home, living alone in a faded Victorian mansion where they survive by creating a closed world centered around each other and their new friends—a rowdy makeshift family of castoffs, dealers, and drama queens on the periphery of the burgeoning drug game, some looking for a way out, some looking for a way deeper in. As the sisters grow from girls into women, they are confronted with a series of surprising reversals—death, imprisonment, and, just maybe, love—that force them to come to grips with the truth about their choices, their friends, and their tangled roots. More Like Wrestling takes readers into fresh and surprising terrain, bringing a complex set of characters to vivid life with bracing honesty and sophistication. With a journalist’s eye for detail and a poet’s ear for language, Danyel Smith has written an unforgettable tale about memory, forgiveness, and love in a world built on fault lines.
Author | : Alice C. Royal |
Publisher | : Heyday Books |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781597143417 |
An expanded gem of California history about the first black settlement in the state of California