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Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California
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Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California Paperback - 2001

by Lawrence B. de Graaf (Editor); Kevin Mulroy (Editor); Quintard Taylor (Editor)


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From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations--churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations--that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment.

Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.

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  • Title Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California
  • Author Lawrence B. de Graaf (Editor); Kevin Mulroy (Editor); Quintard Taylor (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 550
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, U.S.A
  • Date 2001-01-01
  • ISBN 9780295980836 / 0295980834
  • Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.99 x 6 x 1.3 in (22.83 x 15.24 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: California
  • Library of Congress subjects California - History, California - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00051158
  • Dewey Decimal Code 979.400

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  • Choice, 01/01/2002, Page 949
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2001, Page 62
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