This ethnohistorical study examines rural 19th and 20th century African American enclaves across the agricultural landscape of California's Central Valley. Agricultural labor contractors, beginning in the 1880s, recruited large numbers of southern African Americans. This thesis focuses on several almost invisible black communities from that period. Eissinger differentiates planned colonies, such as Allensworth from other historically African American settlements like Cookseyville, Bowles, Fairmead, Sunny Acres, South Dos Palos, Home Garden, Teviston, and Lanare, which grew outside existing...
This ethnohistorical study examines rural 19th and 20th century African American enclaves across the agricultural landscape of California's Central Va...
In 1912, the Co-operative Land and Title Company set out to build a model farming community near the center of California. For one hundred years, this unincorporated community has been home to Russian and Italian immigrants and African American and Hispanic farm workers. This book chronicles many of the changes during the community's first century.
In 1912, the Co-operative Land and Title Company set out to build a model farming community near the center of California. For one hundred years, this...
