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 lives and landscapes of California
During a December 3, 1965 concert, a stunned audience at Sacramento Memorial Auditorium hears a loud pop and sees an eruption of blue sparks as…
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The first gurdwara serving the Sikh community in the United States and Canada is founded in 1912 on South Grand Street in Stockton. For 55…
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“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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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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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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