February is Black History Month

San Diego Black History:

• Black Cavalry in San Diego, 1941-1944 from our Journal of San Diego History
• Black Pioneers in San Diego 1880-1920 from our Journal of San Diego History
• Allen Light, early African American in San Diego with timeline, bio, school lessons
• 1856 Reynolds Political Map of the United States showing free and slave states
• Rebecca Craft and the Woman's Civic League from our Journal of San Diego History
• Palomar's Friendly Hermit Nathan Harrison
• A Talk with Bert Ritchey 1985 interview with a San Diego native
• San Diego's Ku Klux Klan 1920-1980 from our Journal of San Diego History
• African-Americans and the U.S. Navy Blacks at San Diego WWII
• Oral History Dr. Jack Kimbrough ~ Civil Rights sit-in at the Grant Grill, 1948
• Murderous Women and Mild Justice: A Look at Female Violence in Pre-1910 San Diego, San Luis Obispo and Tuolumne Counties from our Journal of San Diego History
• The Lemon Grove Incident: The Nation's First Successful Desegregation Court Case
  from our Journal of San Diego History
• Black Historical Society of San Diego Black History Month
• The Mary Walker Incident: Black Prejudice in San Diego, 1866 from our Journal of San Diego History

In 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the end of the Mexican American era, a census was taken of San Diego's population. There were 248 white residents, 483 "converted" Indians 1,550 "wild" Indians, 3 Negroes and 3 Sandwich Islanders.

More Black History on-line:

• The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave. Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man by Henry Clay Bruce, 1836-1902
• From Slavery to Freedom Library of Congress Pamphlet Collection
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
• The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow from PBS
• Africans in America from PBS
• A History of Black Americans in California
• Buffalo Soldiers
• Special Issue on American Slavery from Common-Place
• Slave Narratives from Federal Writers' Project from Library of Congress
• Eras in Black History Encyclopedia Britannica
• Black History Month - A Medical Perspective from Duke
• Up From Slavery Autobigraphy by Booker T. Washington
• The Souls of Black Folk Bartleby's has W.E.B. Du Bois' complete 1903 text
• North American Slave Narratives from Univ of North Carolina
• Allen Allensworth, founder of the "Negro Town in California" from Univ of North Carolina
• Augustus Washington, African American daguerreotypist from Smithsonian
• African American Women from Duke University
• African Timelines many good black history links, Central Oregon Community College
• Great African Americans from Biography.com
• California African American Museum
• Chronology of Slavery of African-Americans
• Africans in America from PBS
• Timeline of African American History, 1852-1925 from Library of Congress
• African American Odyssey from Library of Congress
• Jackie Robinson & the baseball color line from Library of Congress
• Black History from San Diego's Blaack Pages
• American slave narratives from the University of Virginia
• Martin Delaney, 1812-1885
• Amistad case-records from the National Archives
• Library of Congress - The African-American Mosaic
• Internet Resources for Students of Afro-American History
• Africa Web Links from U. Penn
• Features for Black History Month from the National Archives
• African-Americans and the U.S. Navy
• Essays on African-American History, Culture and Society