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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 ...
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]
Shaun Tomson (born 1955) – South African world champion surfer; Too Short – rapper; Pat Toomay – former football player; Dara Torres (born 1967) – competitive swimmer, first American swimmer to become a five-time Olympian [27] Alessandra Torresani – actress; Josie Totah – actress; Toypurina – Native American medicine woman [28]
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 ...
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.
Black or African American was the fourth most commonly reported racial group in California, comprising 6.1 percent (2,252,129) of the state's population, roughly half that of Asians. Solano County had the highest percentage of those reporting Black or African American as their race (14.6 percent), and they surpassed 10 percent in two other ...
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]