Civil Rights for African Americans in Early California

When California's state legislature met for its first session in 1850, it passed discriminatory laws that further denied African Americans basic rights. The ...

Despite this, the first California state legislature (a body of people elected to make laws) created laws that limited the rights of African Americans, Mexican ...

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By the early 1850s, the State of California had attracted an impressive African-American leadership class. Although less than 1,000 African-Americans were ...

Milestones for African Americans in the California Judicial Branch

April 1858. The enslavement and ultimate freedom of Archy Lee brought about cases that helped defined civil rights in the state of California.

News - Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California

Black people didn't always have the right to testify in court in the U.S....and not just in the Jim Crow South, but in California as well, which had a Black ...

Black History Month: Revealing California's Hidden African ...

The California Federation of Colored Women's Clubs offered regular lectures on black history during its heyday in the Progressive Era 1920s.

Home - Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California

African Americans toiled as slaves in the mines during the Gold Rush and beyond even though the state constitution banned slavery. Through narratives, public ...

California's history of anti-Blackness hides beneath its progressive ...

A new history of the state traces early civil rights battles spearheaded by Black activists. ... African Americans in California continue ...

California Once Tried to Ban Black People | HISTORY

Burnett wasn't alone in his vision of a California that banned Black people. Throughout the 1840s and 1850s, California citizens and legislators ...

Oakland's History of Resistance to Racism

Many African American and Latino families were displaced from West Oakland during this period. African Americans relocated to East Oakland, especially the ...

Chapter 4 - Political Disenfranchisement

the civil rights of African Americans and secure the rights guaranteed by ... both change the old system and design a new one. California. During California's ...

The Civil Rights Movement in The Bay Area - Google Arts & Culture

By the 1960's, the Civil Rights Movement, which began in the South, had reached California. Once the Movement took hold in the Bay Area, it brought together ...

Building a Community: A Look at African American Institutions in ...

The local chapter Afro-American Council (AAC) was the first long-standing civil rights organization in Los Angeles. ... Living the California ...

Fighting for Leisure: African Americans, Beaches, and Civil Rights in ...

In doing so the Bruces established the region's first resort for African Americans. Black Californians drove or took advantage of the region's ...

African Americans in the Gold Rush - PBS

The Monterey delegates who made California a free state did so largely on the basis of the mining economy. They did not extend civil rights to California's ...

The Civil Rights Era - The African American Odyssey

Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, ...

When Do You Stop Arriving? The Project “We Are Not Strangers Here

African Americans, agriculture, public history, settlement, civil rights ... history of California's early African American presence. For ...

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41 In the broader Inland. Empire region, the first black paper, The Colored Citizen, operated out of Redlands, California from 1905 to 1906.42 While a short run ...

Reflecting on Black Artistic Influence in California | The Huntington

During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s, California was an important site of African American creativity, even in the face of ...

A History of Black Americans in California: AME CHURCH

Serving in various capacities, free men of African ancestry helped establish California missions and pueblos. They constituted 25 percent of ...