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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“The California Gold Rush was a “universal mass trespass that shortly created laws to legitimize itself.” — Wallace Stegner Some states are conceived in slavery.…
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Born enslaved in Georgia or Mississippi in 1818, Bridget “Biddy” Mason — with a nursing baby on her back and her two other young daughters…
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Between January and April of 1858, Northern California is rocked by the “case of the decade” – a determination of whether Archy Lee is allowed…
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On February 10, 1863, state lawmakers choose Assemblyman John Conness, a strong opponent of slavery, as California’s U.S. Senator, succeeding his slain political mentor and…
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