Anderson Marsh State Historic Park -- Hyrum and Lucy who came with John Grigsby family
Angel Island State Park --Buffalo Soldiers including
Lt. Col. Allen Allensworth
Antelope Valley Indian Museum-African collections
Anza-Borrego Desert State Park-Dan Grant, African-American cowboy
Bodie State Historic Park --Billy O’Hara, boarding house operator
California State Railroad Museum --- black railroad workers and porters
Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park -- all-black town founded by Lt. Col. Allen Allensworth in 1908
Columbia State Historic Park
Folsom Lake State Recreational Area -- Negro Bar, Big Negro Hill, Little Negro Hill, Negro Bar, Leidesdorff ranch
Fort Humboldt State Historic Park
Fort Ross State Historic Park--black sailor; Leidesdorff as agent
Greenwood State Beach -- sailor Nathaniel Smith
Jack London State Historic Park -- “Mammy Jenny” Prentiss
Lake Oroville State Recreational Area -- James Beckworth
Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park -- James Vickers
Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park -- Leidesdorff, Steve Ball, Nelson Bell, Nancy and Peter Gooch, Lewis Dukhart, Perly Monroe, Joseph Smallwood, John Smith, Charles Williams
Millerton Lake State Recreational Area
Monterey State Historic Park -- sailor John Gibson
Old Town San Diego State Historic Park--Pio Pico, Allen B. Light, Richard Freeman, Anita Freeman
Olompali State Historic Park
Palomar Mountain State Park -- Nathan Harrison
Pio Pico State Historic Park -- Pio Pico
Plumas-Eureka State Park--James Beckwourth
San Juan Bautista State Historic Park--Ishmael Williams
San Pasqual State Historic Battlefield -- Andres Pico
Shasta State Historic Park--school for African-American children, Benjamin
Young, Chicken George
Sutters Fort State Historic Park--William Leidesdorff
California African-American Museum-Exposition Park
James deTarr Abajian Collection, Bancroft Library, UC-Berkeley
Gold Rush Abolitionists
The California Movement to Emancipation
State Resources for African-American Heritage

Dred Scott

John Brown

William Alexander
Leidesdorff

Mifflin Gibbs

Revs. J.J. Moore and
T.M.D. Ward

Mary Ellen Pleasant

James Beckwourth

Archy Lee

Bridget Mason

Andres Pico

Emancipation Proclamation

Historic Sites

The Naming of California

State Parks

California Black Legislative Caucus

Soul of California’s Future

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