Seeking El Dorado

Quintard Taylor is the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Emeritus Professor of American History at the University of Washington and founder of BlackPast.org. Among his many publications, he is the author of In Search of The Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 (Norton, 1999) and The Forging of A Black Community: Seattle’s Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (UWP, 1994) and co-editor of Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California (UWP, 2001) and African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003). He is the series editor for the University of Oklahoma Press's series Race and Culture in the American West.

• PrefaceIntroduction, African Americans in California History, California in African American HistoryPart 1: Forming the Community1. The Early African heritage of California2. African American Women & Community Development in California 1848-1900Part 2: Pursuing the Dream3. “The Greatest State for the Negro”, Jefferson L. Edmonds, Black Propagandist of the California Dream4. Harvests of Gold, African American Boosterism, Agriculture, and Investment in Allensorth and Little Liberia5. in Search of the Promised Land, African American Migration to San Francisco, 1900-19456. Your Life Is Really Not Just Your Own, African American Women in 20th Century CaliforniaPart 3: Developments in Culture and Politics7. The Evolution of Black Music in Los Angeles 1890-19558. Becoming Democrats, Liberal Politics and the African American Community in Los Angeles 1930-19659. In the Interest of All Races, African Americans and Interracial Cooperation in Los Angeles during and after World War IIPart 4: The Dream Deferred10. Deindustrialization, Urban Poverty and African American Community Mobilization in Oakland, 1945 through the 1990s11. Black Fire, Riot and Revolt in Los Angeles 1965 and 199212. African American Suburbanization in California 1960 through 199013. Coalition Building in Los Angeles, the Bradley Years and BeyondSuggested ReadingsContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex