Seeking El Dorado : : African Americans in California / / edited by Lawrence B. de Graaf, Kevin Mulroy, and Quintard Taylor.

• TeilnehmendeR: De Graaf, Lawrence Brooks.; Mulroy, Kevin.; Taylor, Quintard.
• Place / Publishing House: Los Angeles : : Autry Museum of Western Heritage,, 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (557 pages) :; maps

Table of Contents

• Introduction: African Americans in California history, California in African American history / Lawrence B. De Graaf and Quintard Taylor
• The early African heritage of California / Jack D. Forbes
• African American women and community development in California, 1848-1900 / Willi Coleman
• "The greatest state for the Negro": Jefferson L. Edmonds, Black propagandist of the California dream / Lonnie G. Bunch III
• Harvest of gold: African American boosterism, agriculture, and investment in Allensworth and Little Liberia / Dolores Nason McBroome
• In search of the promised land: African American migration to San Francisco, 1900-1945 / Albert S. Broussard
• "Your life is really not just your own": African American women in twentieth century California / Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
• The evolution of Black music in Los Angeles, 1890-1955 / Bette Yarbrough Cox
• Becoming Democrats: liberal politics and the African American community in Los Angeles, 1930-1965 / Douglas Flamming
• "In the interest of all races": African Americans and interracial cooperation in Los Angeles during and after World War II / Kevin Allen Leonard
• Deindustrialization, urban poverty and African American community mobilization in Oakland, 1945 through the 1990s / Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
• Black fire: "riot" and "revolt" in Los Angeles, 1965 and 1992 / Gerald Horne
• African American suburbanization in California, 1960 through 1990 / Lawrence B. De Graaf
• Coalition building in Los angeles: the Bradley years and beyond / Raphael J. Sonenshein.