Five Views

Five Views

Author: California. Office of Historic Preservation

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Seeking El Dorado

Seeking El Dorado

Author: Lawrence B. de Graaf

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 557

ISBN-13: 0295805315

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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.


West of Jim Crow

West of Jim Crow

Author: Lynn M. Hudson

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 0252052226

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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.


Pioneer Urbanites

Pioneer Urbanites

Author: Douglas Henry Daniels

Publisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 264

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The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, single men. Many were associated with the transportation boom following the Gold Rush; others traveled as employees of wealthy individuals.Douglas Daniels argues for the importance of going beyond the written record and urban statistics in examining the life of a minority community. He has studied photographs from family albums and interviewed members of old black San Francisco families in his effort to provide the first nuanced picture of the lives of black San Franciscans from the 1860s to the 1940s.


The Negro

The Negro

Author: William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 272

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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.