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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Stories about the rights of the people of California
“You came out to California, put on your pants, and took your lunch pail to a man’s job. This was the beginning of women’s feeling…
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San Francisco Call, 29 December 1901, pg. 4 California Digital Newspaper Collection, Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside, http://cdnc.ucr.edu. Much of…
Continue readingFrom Enslaved Person to Wealthy Entrepreneur, Abolitionist and Civil Rights Activist
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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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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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Inspiration comes to Malvina Reynolds as she drives through a Daly City housing development in 1962. Her song, “Little Boxes,” a satire on conformity, becomes…
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On March 18, 1947, a basketball game tips off at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Corona. It has all the makings of any high stakes game.…
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In the view of many sportswriters and historians of the game, the University of San Francisco’s 1951 team is the greatest college football team ever. …
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