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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 ...
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.
Mexico gained its independence from Spain, and from 1821 to 1846 California (called Alta California by 1824) was under Mexican rule. The Mexican National Congress passed the Colonization Act of 1824 in which large sections of unoccupied land were granted to individuals, and in 1833 the government secularized missions and consequently many civil authorities at the time confiscated the land from ...
In 2022, the city honored Gage with a 15-foot full-color mural at Rosa Parks Elementary School. [5] At the unveiling, Mayor London Breed stated that Gage "paved the way" for Black leaders in San Francisco, such as the first Black fire chief, Robert Demmons, the first Black mayor, Willie Brown Jr., and London Breed herself, the first Black woman ...
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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Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (April 17, 1823 – July 11, 1915) was an American-born Canadian politician, businessman, newspaper publisher, and advocate for black rights. [1] [2] He moved to California as a young man, during the Gold Rush, and was an early black pioneer in San Francisco. [3]
John Rollin Ridge (Yellow Bird) (c. 1840s): [3] First Native American lawyer in California; R.C.O. Benjamin (1884): [4] [5] First African American male lawyer in California; Hong Yen Chang (1888): [6] First Chinese American male lawyer in the U.S., but was denied the right to practice law in California [7]