Clinton Park was a conservation project, the first of this type in the Western United States.Oakland's first concentrated action against blight and substandard housing.
Lydia Flood Jackson (1862-1963)
She was the daughter of a freed slave, the first Negro to attend an integrated Oakland public school in 1872, and became a leader of the women’s suffrage movement in 1918.
Then & Now – Oakland Schools Part 2
A Bit of History of Campbell, Swett, Cole, Piedmont Avenue, Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson Schools in Oakland.