African Americans of San Francisco (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781531650360)

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.

Author: Jan Batiste Adkins
ISBN-10: 1531650368
ISBN-13: 9781531650360
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 01/23/2012
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d