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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles : Autry Museum of Western Heritage ; 2001.; Seattle : University of Seattle Press, (c)2001.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 537 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780295805313
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F870 .S445 2001
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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