African American Resources for California

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Resources for researching African American ancestors who lived in California.



Archives and Libraries
Click here to learn about African American Resources in Los Angeles.

Biography

 * Beasley, Delilah Leontium. The Negro Trail Blazers of California : a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California. Los Angeles:[s.n.], - 317 p.: ill, ports F870.N38 B3 1919b   WorldCat  Digital version
 * Goode, Kenneth F. California's Black Pioneers: A Brief Historical Survey. Santa Barbara, Calif.: McNally Loftin, 1974 [c1974].- xiii, 222p.:ill. E185.93 C2G66 1974
 * Lapp, Rudolph M. Blacks in Gold Rush California New Haven:Yale university Press, 1977 - xiv, 321 p., (Yale Western Americana Series; 29) E185.C2 L36


 * Vivian, Octavia B. The Story of the Negro in Los Angeles County. compiled by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration under the supervision of Hugh Harlan. - [S.l.:s.n.], 1956. - 43 p. F868.L8 V5 1970
 * Los Angeles Negro Business Directory. - [Vol.1] 91952/53)- [Vol.2] (1953/54). - Los Angeles, 1953-1954 F869.L8 L82
 * History of Black American in Santa Clara Valley. [Prepared by the staff of the Garden City Women's Club]. - [Sunnyvale, Calif.: Lockheed Missiles &amp; Space Co., c 1978]. - xxx, 220 p.:ill. F868.S25 G37 1978
 * Parker, Elizabeth L. and James Abajian. A Walking tour of the Black Presence in San Francisco during the nineteenth century: A Black history week event; - [San Francisco]: San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society 1974. - 23 p.: ill F869.S3 P22

Church Records
Los Angeles

First African Methodisy Episcopal A.M.E. Churtch,(1872- ) History

Sacramento

St Andrews A.M.E. Church, (1850-) History

San Jose

Antioch Baptist Church, (1868-) History

History
African Americans in California is a helpful historical timeline that highlights people and events from the Spanish Era until 2003.

Online Resources
The California Underground Railroad, California State University, Sacramento

The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project

The Martin Luther King Project, Stanford University