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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“For the first time in the history of this nation a political party has chosen a Negro woman for the second highest office in the…
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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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