The Silenced and Silences: Representations in Ethnic Studies

Section for Central Valley and Jim Crow

 

Legalized racial segregation like the ‘Jim Crow’ laws of the Southern United States caused African Americans to be excluded from subdivisions and communities, and caused some to found their own towns.

Pamphlet on subdivision investing for housing in Huntington area in Fresno

Build Your Home Among the Shade Trees of Recreation Park, Fresno’s Newest Subdivision

Map of property lots available for house construction in the Huntington area of Fresno

Build Your Home Among the Shade Trees of Recreation Park, Fresno’s Newest Subdivision

Cover of book about the rights of an African American in California in the year 1850

Negro Civil Rights in California: 1850

Handwritten page

Negro Civil Rights in California: 1850

Sarah Carroll, mulatto woman, was robbed by William H. Potter, a white man, and received no punishment

Negro Civil Rights in California: 1850

Brief history of African Americans in California and founding of Allensworth

A Pictorial History of Allensworth: A Unique Black Town

African American students getting on school bus to Allensworth

A Pictorial History of Allensworth: A Unique Black Town

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