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Title Seeking El Dorado : African Americans in California / edited by Lawrence B. de Graaf, Kevin Mulroy, and Quintard Taylor
Published Los Angeles : Autry Museum of Western Heritage ; Seattle : University of Seattle Press, c2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 537 p.)
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject African Americans -- California -- History
African Americans -- California -- Social conditions
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
African Americans
African Americans -- Social conditions
Social conditions
Soziale Situation
SUBJECT California -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018879
California -- Social conditions
Subject California
Kalifornien
Schwärze
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author De Graaf, Lawrence Brooks
Mulroy, Kevin
Taylor, Quintard
Autry Museum of Western Heritage.
LC no. 2021694736
ISBN 9780295805313
0295805315