Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon move to San Francisco from Seattle in 1953. Hoping to meet other lesbians, the two women visit “gay girls hangouts”…
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Dorothea Nutzhorn is born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey to Heinrich Nutzhorn, a lawyer, and Johanna Lange Nutzhorn. At age seven, Dorothea…
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The year is 1852. It is a fine spring day in Los Angeles. A small black mare and her rider stand beside a tall roan…
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On January 1, 1909, the “seat of government of the State of California shall be changed from the city of Sacramento to the town of…
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On January 21, 1913, the Oakland YWCA announces that the city’s own Julia Morgan — the most accomplished woman architect in the country — is…
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It is nearly dusk on December 14, 1933 when a Chinese teen named Jeung Gwai Ying flees from a hairdresser’s shop to a “safe house”…
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In 1940, the Treasury Department holds a contest to choose an artist to paint a series of murals for the lobby of the Rincon Annex…
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Jackie Robinson is best known for becoming the first Black player in Major League Baseball when he joins the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. But before…
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On January 20, 2021, amidst political turmoil and civil unrest, Kamala D. Harris makes history as she is sworn in as the first female, first…
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On her 100th birthday in 1962, Lydia Flood Jackson is honored by the City of Oakland as their oldest living native and the daughter of…
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