In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California's Santa Clara County--including what's now called Silicon Valley--took many observers by surprise. After all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had legally abolished most forms of racial discrimination, and subsequent legal reform had surely taken care of the rest. White Americans might even have wondered where the black activists in the late sixties were coming from--because, beginning with the writings of Fredrick Jackson Turner, the most influential histories of the American West...
In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California's Santa Clara County--including what's now called Silicon Va...
