A01=Douglas Henry Daniels
african american history
african americans
american history
Author_Douglas Henry Daniels
bay area
black americans
black families
black migration
california
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cultural history
demographic studies
early 20th century
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ethnic diversity
gold rush
historians
late 19th century
minorities
minority communities
personal interviews
san francisco
social history
transportation boom
united states
urban history
urban statistics
urbanites
western migration
Product details
- ISBN 9780520073999
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 1991
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. Those who traveled West, or arrived by ship, were often independent, sophisticated, and single men. Many were associated with the transportation boom following the Gold Rush; others traveled as employees of wealthy individuals. Douglas Daniels argues for the importance of going beyond the written record and urban statistics in examining the life of a minority community. He has studied photographs from family albums and interviewed members of old black San Francisco families in his effort to provide the first nuanced picture of the lives of black San Franciscans from the 1860s to the 1940s.
Douglas Henry Daniels is Associate Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
