Seeking El Dorado

African Americans in California

AvLawrence B. de Graaf,Kevin Mulroy

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2001-01-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt:771 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Seeking El Dorado
Antal sidor:550
Förlag:University of Washington Press
ISBN:9780295980836

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Quintard Taylor is the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Emeritus Professor of American History at the University of Washington and founder of BlackPast.org. Among his many publications, he is the author of In Search of The Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 (Norton, 1999) and The Forging of A Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (UWP, 1994) and co-editor of Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California (UWP, 2001) and African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003). He is the series editor for the University of Oklahoma Press's series Race and Culture in the American West.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction, African Americans in California History, California in African American HistoryPart 1: Forming the Community1. The Early African heritage of California2. African American Women & Community Development in California 1848-1900Part 2: Pursuing the Dream3. “The Greatest State for the Negro”, Jefferson L. Edmonds, Black Propagandist of the California Dream4. Harvests of Gold, African American Boosterism, Agriculture, and Investment in Allensorth and Little Liberia5. in Search of the Promised Land, African American Migration to San Francisco, 1900-19456. Your Life Is Really Not Just Your Own, African American Women in 20th Century CaliforniaPart 3: Developments in Culture and Politics7. The Evolution of Black Music in Los Angeles 1890-19558. Becoming Democrats, Liberal Politics and the African American Community in Los Angeles 1930-19659. In the Interest of All Races, African Americans and Interracial Cooperation in Los Angeles during and after World War IIPart 4: The Dream Deferred10. Deindustrialization, Urban Poverty and African American Community Mobilization in Oakland, 1945 through the 1990s11. Black Fire, Riot and Revolt in Los Angeles 1965 and 199212. African American Suburbanization in California 1960 through 199013. Coalition Building in Los Angeles, the Bradley Years and BeyondSuggested ReadingsContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex