Laura de Force Gordon gives the first speech on suffrage in California at San Francisco’s Platt Hall on February 19, 1868. Her topic is “The…
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Stories about the rights of the people of California
Growing up in Long Beach, Billie Jean King saves $8.29 in a Mason jar to buy her first tennis racquet, using nail polish to hold…
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Rodney Glen King spends the evening of March 2, 1991, watching a basketball game and drinking 40-ounce bottles of Olde English 800 at a friend’s…
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So says Universalist and Unitarian minister Thomas Starr King on his San Francisco deathbed, March 4, 1864. According to Charles Wendte’s 1921 biography of Starr…
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Ten months before California becomes a state, voters overwhelmingly approve a constitution and elect a Legislature and a governor. There are some 107,000 persons of…
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One the ugliest and most violent attacks on any group of people in California takes place on October 24, 1871. The “Los Angeles Massacre” or…
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