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In 1974, the city of San Francisco designated eucalyptus trees that Pleasant had planted outside her mansion at the southwest corner of Octavia and Bush streets in San Francisco as a Structure of Merit. [44] The trees and associated plaque are now known as Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park, which is the smallest park in San Francisco. [45]
Teresa Percy flees her abusive husband, a gambling addict, from New York City to San Francisco in the mid-19th century. Her new friend Lizzie, a prostitute, introduces her to Ms. Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant, a mysterious local socialite infamous for having "rescued" and gainfully employed numerous black people who were former slaves and part of southern America's African-American diaspora.
Bell was a decades-long bachelor [4] when Pleasant introduced him to Teresa Percy Hoey, [3] [10] who had been one of her "protégés". [11] [d] Teresa's maiden name was Harris and she was a widow when she married Bell. [10] Home of Mary Ellen Pleasant and Thomas Bell's family, 1861 Octavia, San Francisco, California
11. Mary Ellen Pleasant Memorial Park, Lower Pac Heights. ... Mary Ellen Pleasant moved to San Francisco to work as a cook for wealthy men during the Gold Rush. She went on to become the first ...
Woodworth and his brother were abolitionists, his brother having served in the Atlantic to end the slave trade. A fugitive slave named Mary Ellen Pleasant had come to San Francisco in 1852 aboard the steamer Oregon. Initially she took employment working as a cook and housekeeper at the house belonging to the Case, Heiser & Company, Woodworth's ...
Despite discrimination in employment, by 1862, African-Americans in San Francisco owned $300,000 in assets, mostly real estate. $100,000 of this was owned by two people: Mary Ellen Pleasant ($30,000) and a partner of hers, Richard Barber ($70,000). [20]
The Charlotte Brown case paved the way for other cases brought by San Francisco African Americans like William Bowen and Mary Ellen Pleasant that challenged the "whites-only" practices of the privately owned streetcars. [27] [28] In 1893 streetcar segregation was officially outlawed on statewide streetcars by the California legislature. [1] [29]
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