Jacksonville Public Library

Seeking El Dorado, African Americans in California, edited by Lawrence B. de Graaf, Kevin Mulroy, and Quintard Taylor

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Seeking El Dorado

bibliography

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edited by Lawrence B. de Graaf, Kevin Mulroy, and Quintard Taylor

African Americans in California

Introduction: African Americans in California history, California in African American history / Lawrence B. De Graaf and Quintard Taylor -- The early African heritage of California / Jack D. Forbes -- African American women and community development in California, 1848-1900 / Willi Coleman -- "The greatest state for the Negro": Jefferson L. Edmonds, Black propagandist of the California dream / Lonnie G. Bunch III -- Harvest of gold: African American boosterism, agriculture, and investment in Allensworth and Little Liberia / Dolores Nason McBroome -- In search of the promised land: African American migration to San Francisco, 1900-1945 / Albert S. Broussard -- "Your life is really not just your own": African American women in twentieth century California / Shirley Ann Wilson Moore -- The evolution of Black music in Los Angeles, 1890-1955 / Bette Yarbrough Cox -- Becoming Democrats: liberal politics and the African American community in Los Angeles, 1930-1965 / Douglas Flamming -- "In the interest of all races": African Americans and interracial cooperation in Los Angeles during and after World War II / Kevin Allen Leonard -- Deindustrialization, urban poverty and African American community mobilization in Oakland, 1945 through the 1990s / Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo -- Black fire: "riot" and "revolt" in Los Angeles, 1965 and 1992 / Gerald Horne -- African American suburbanization in California, 1960 through 1990 / Lawrence B. De Graaf -- Coalition building in Los angeles: the Bradley years and beyond / Raphael J. Sonenshein