Oakland Unfolded
Toward a Black Aesthetic focuses on Green’s images of Black women, whose strength, intellect and beauty he recognized and paid homage to through his photographs, which also highlight the fashion and politics of the 1960s and 70s.
Grand Avenue Heights is situated on Grand Avenue between the head of Lake Merritt and Piedmont. At one time this area was called Pleasant Valley.
In 1948, as part of the promotion for the movie Mr. Blandings' Builds a Dream House starring Cary Grant and Myrna Loy, the studio built "dream houses" in cities across the United States. Oakland was chosen as one of the locations.
Dickson P. Hill, an Oakland radio store owner, said he and his wife Sylvia lived "double lives'' as Communists for the FBI from 1945 to 1949.
The Little Daisy was a small, local chain of women’s clothing boutiques selling shoes, jewelry, and accessories. There were two Oakland Stores one in Montclair and the other in the Lakeshore
Black pioneers moved to Oakland soon after the town was founded in 1852. By 1860 23 blacks were living in the Oakland Township, and 18 were living in the town of Brooklyn (east of Lake Merritt, now a part of Oakland.) Isaac and Elizabeth Flood lived in Brooklyn (Oakland). They were among the noted “Negro... Continue Reading →
In 1931 Russell J Maynard opened his gasoline service station and repair shop on the northeast corner of 36th and Grove Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Way) at 3601 36th St.
A bit of history of the automotive industry in Oakland from 1911 to the mid-1960s. After surveying the coast, the leaders of General Motors decided Oakland was the logical place to build a new plant. Oakland was ideal, with facilities for Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, and Western Pacific railroads and deep-water ports.
In the late summer and early fall of 1893 residents of Elmhurst began building a simple and dignified wood-framed church.
The Commemorator newspaper collection consists of 54 issues of Commemorator newspaper printed from 1990-2012. The newspaper consists of reports on the activities of the Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party.
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