African Americans of San Francisco
African Americans of San Francisco

Author: Jan Batiste Adkins

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738576190

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Beginning in the 1840s, black men and women heard the call to go west, migrating to California in search of gold, independence, freedom, and land to call their own. By the mid-1850s, a lively African American community had taken root in San Francisco. Churches and businesses were established, schools were built, newspapers were published, and aid societies were formed. For the next century, the history of San Francisco's African American community mirrored the nation's slow progress toward integration with triumphs and setbacks depicted in images of schools, churches, protest movements, business successes, and political struggles.

Black San Francisco
Black San Francisco

Author: Albert S. Broussard

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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This work explores race relations in the city of San Francisco, where whites, for the most part, were outwardly civil to blacks, while denying them employment opportunities and political power. The author argues that it is essential to understand the nature of the racial caste system.

Pioneer Urbanites
Pioneer Urbanites

Author: Douglas Henry Daniels

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780520073999

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"Makes us rethink community formation in the United States. Cliches about the frontier melting pot can no longer abide. The emerging community that Daniels describes is one of multi-ethnic diversity and tension. Equally important, this is a rare study of the birth, development, and transformation of an Afro-American community."—Nathan Irvin Huggins, author of Harlem Renaissance

San Francisco Lithographer
San Francisco Lithographer

Author: Robert Joseph Chandler

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780806144108

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This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown's lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist.

Harlem of the West
Harlem of the West

Author: Elizabeth Pepin

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780811845489

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Harlem of the West reveals a forgotten slice of San Francisco history and the African-American experience on the West Coast: the thriving jazz scene of the Fillmore in the 1940s and 1950s. With archival photographs and oral accounts from the residents and musicians who experienced it, this vividly illustrated tour will delight jazz fans and history aficionados.

The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights
The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights

Author: Paul T. Miller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1135235155

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Paul T. Miller tells the story of African Americans in San Francisco, tracing the obstacles faced and triumphs achieved in areas as housing, employment and education, and adding to our understandings of civil rights and the intersection of race and geography within the postwar period of American history.

African Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County
African Americans of San Jose and Santa Clara County

Author: Jan Batiste Adkins

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467102431

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"The rich history of people of African heritage in the Santa Clara Valley began as early as 1777, and in the 1800s, a lively black community took root. By the Great Migration in the 1900s, neighborhoods in San Jose, Palo Alto, and Santa Clara became home to many African Americans from Southern and Midwest states who were seeking new opportunites. By the 1960s, African Americans found jobs in the emerging technology industry, at Ford Motor Company, and in public service agencies. African Americans pursued degrees at San Jose State College (SJSC), the University of Santa Clara, Stanford University, and community colleges located in the Santa Clara Valley. SJSC's athletic programs opened the door for student athletes, while Dr. Harry Edwards, John Carlos, and Tommy Smith took on civil rights challenges. The complicated history of the black community throughtout Santa Clara County has mirrored the nation's slow progress towards social and economic success. This progress is captured in the presented images chronicling individual stories of political struggle, success, and triumph."--Provided by publisher

Changemakers
Changemakers

Author: David Holler

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13:

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Changemakers, written and researched by students at the University of San Francisco, documents and celebrates the lives and legacies of 96 inspiring African Americans featured on the Inspiration Murals at the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center in San Francisco's Western Addition neighborhood.

Making San Francisco American
Making San Francisco American

Author: Barbara Berglund

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13:

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Focuses on the 19th-century transformation in San Francisco--from Gold Rush to earthquake--to show how the city's diverse residents created a modern American city through everyday "cultural frontiers," such as restaurants, hotels, and annual fairs and expositions, among others.

Oral History of the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society, 1945-1986
Oral History of the San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society, 1945-1986

Author: Ethel Ray Nance

Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

Published: 2018-11-09

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780344979385

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