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She is the first African-American woman to have become a television reporter on the U.S. West Coast. She has won eight Emmy Awards and been recognized by the American Women in Radio and Television and National Association of Black Journalists. After growing up in Oakland, California, Davis began writing freelance articles for magazines in 1957 ...
Lydia Flood Jackson – businesswoman, club woman, suffragist, an oldest living native of Oakland when she died in 1963 [103] Marcus Foster – educator, first African-American Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District [104] Alicia Garza – co-founder of Black Lives Matter [105] Elihu Harris – politician, former mayor of Oakland ...
The Fannie Jackson Coppin Club was formed in Oakland in June 1899 by women of Beth Eden Baptist Church. [1] [2] [3] This club was the first club for African American women in Oakland. [4] It was named after Fanny Jackson Coppin who was the first African American woman to become a school principal. [5] Coppin State University is named after ...
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 ...
Born in Lawton, Oklahoma on April 22, 1932 (dispute other sources that cite her birth year as 1935 [17] [18] and 1939 [19]), Love was the second of five children born to Alvin E. (1911–1974) [citation needed] and Burnett C. Love (née Williams; 1912–1997), [20] Love was raised in Bakersfield, California, after her family migrated there during the 1940s. [21]
Born in Oakland, California, Armstrong received an Associate of Arts degree from Merritt College in 1967 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Fresno in 1969. She was the first female black police officer in the Oakland Police Department where she served from 1970 to 1977. [ 1 ]
In 1980, Oakland, California had a 47% Black population (the 20th-century peak number); and by the 2010 census, Oakland had a 27% Black population due to out of state migration and other factors. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] The Black population has declined since the 1980s, and since then the entire San Francisco Bay Area has experienced more affluent ...
Moms 4 Housing is a housing activist group in Oakland, California.It was formed and received national attention after three formerly homeless Black women moved their families into a vacant three-bedroom house as squatters without permission from the owner, a real estate redevelopment company.