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State flag of California Location of California on the U.S. map. This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of California. It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in California, or for whom California is a significant part of their identity.
Billingsley's research revealed another type of African-American family, called the augmented family structure, which is a family composed of the primary members, plus nonrelatives. [32] Billingsley's case study found that this family structure accounted for 8% of black families in 1990. [ 39 ]
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 ...
The Gaither quintuplets (born 3 August 1983, in Indianapolis, Indiana) were the first surviving African-American quintuplets and were one of only three naturally-conceived American sets in 1983. [47] [48] [49] The Al-Ghamdi quintuplets (born 2 February 1988, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) were the first set to be born in Saudi Arabia. The 5 boys were ...
Sargent Johnson (1888–1967), sculptor, one of the first African-American artists working in California to achieve a national reputation [131] Freda Koblick (1920–2011), acrylic artist and sculptor [132] Ron Nagle (born 1939), sculptor, musician and songwriter [133] Manuel Neri (1930–2021), sculptor, part of the Bay Area Figurative ...
Hettie B. Tilghman – African-American activist and suffragist [131] Robert Treuhaft – activist for labor and leftist causes, attorney, writer [132] Earl Warren – Assistant Attorney City of Oakland, District Attorney of Alameda County, Attorney General of California, Governor of California and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice [133]
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.
Doris A. Davis – first African-American female mayor of a metropolitan city, Compton [20] Douglas Dollarhide – California's first African-American mayor of a metropolitan city, Compton [21] Roger Hedgecock – 30th mayor of San Diego, radio talk show host; Rizza Islam (born 1990), member of the Nation of Islam and social media influencer [22]