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.
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.
Klinknerville was a town in what is now the Golden Gate neighborhood. It was started by Charles Alexander Klinkner in 1885, the name was changed to Golden Gate in 1888, and it was annexed by Oakland in 1897.
"Then it was revealed that Milton Wiser was a "confidence man who had played out his racket and disappeared, owing many people in defaulted debts and checks that bounced."Montclarion Jan 1, 1958
Would you like to be Queen for a Day?! Host Jack Bailey would say that the entire audience would reply: "YES!" Dolly Monks won a new candy store in Montclair (Oakland CA)
Growing up in Montclair there was an older woman who would walk the streets of Montclair. She would walk with her head down minding her own business and not causing any problems.
Joshua Rose was Oakland's first African American city councilman.
Fannie Wall Children's Home and Day Nursery, an orphanage and daycare center, established in 1918 by African-American clubwomen in West Oakland,
In 1968 Tayna Dennis was the first African-American to be crowned Miss Oakland. The 2nd was in 1969 and the 3rd in 1970.
Delilah Beasley was a columnist for the Oakland Tribune.She is most known for her book "The Negro Trail-Blazers of California," published in 1919 and reprinted in 1968.
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