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Pío Pico, California's last governor under Mexican rule, was of mixed Spanish, Native American, and African descent Juana Briones de Miranda, the "founding mother of San Francisco", was of mixed-race with African ancestry "Ex-Service Men's Club" (1940), an African American bar in Sunset District in East Bakersfield, Kern County, California African American worker Richmond Shipyards (April ...
By 1900, 2,131 African Americans, the second largest black population in California, lived in Los Angeles. [ 16 ] In 1872, the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles (First A.M.E. or FAME) was established under the sponsorship of Biddy Mason , an African American nurse and a California real estate entrepreneur and ...
William Alexander Leidesdorff Jr. (1810 – May 18, 1848) was an Afro-Caribbean settler in California and one of the founders of the city that became San Francisco.A highly successful, enterprising businessman, he is thought to have been the first black millionaire in the United States.
Delilah Beasley chronicled African American "firsts" and notable achievements in early California in her book The Negro Trail-Blazers of California (1919), which is a compilation of records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, found in newspapers from 1848 to the 1890s, and most particularly all the Black newspapers from the first in ...
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African-American history of California (12 C, 45 P) Pages in category "African Americans in California" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The legislature founds the first public college for African Americans, Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute, as well as the first mental hospital for African Americans, both near Petersburg, Virginia. The hospital was established in December 1869, at Howard's Grove Hospital, a former Confederate unit, but is moved to a new campus in 1882.
First African-Americans to play in the Cotton Bowl Classic: Wallace Triplett and Dennis Hoggard [179] First African American to design and construct a professional golf course: Bill Powell; First African-American knowingly trained and commissioned as a U.S. Naval aviator: Jesse L. Brown [180]