African American Resources for California

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Resources for researching African American ancestors who lived in California.

[[Image:William Leidesdorff.jpg|border|right|200x300px|William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. (October 23, 1810 – May 18, 1848), one of the earliest mixed-race U.S. citizens in Californi]

Archives and Libraries
Click [[County of Los Angeles Public Libraries#African_American_Resources|her] 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   [http://www.worldcat.org/title/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/oclc/465259258 WorldCt  [https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE94154 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 Francisc: 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- ) [http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/first-african-methodist-episcopal-church-1872 Histor

Sacramento

St Andrews A.M.E. Church, (1850-) [http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/st-andrews-ame-church-1850 Histor

San Jose

Antioch Baptist Church, (1868-) [http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/antioch-baptist-church-san-jose-california-1893 Histor

History
[http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/africanamerican/timelines.html African Americans in Californi 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

[http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/ The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project

[http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/ The Martin Luther King Projec, Stanford University