Shirley Moore is a professor of history at California State University, Sacramento, with specialties in African-American history, Western U.S. History and oral history. She has worked on the CSUS Underground Railroad Digital Archive project http://digital.lib.csus.edu/curr/, an online archive from California State University, Sacramento which seeks to provide insight into the challenges blacks faced in California of the 1800s. See related article California slavery archive takes digital format. http://www.csus.edu/news/102803slaveryArchive.stm.
She is also the author of To Place Our Deeds The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963 and African American Women Confront the West, 1600–2000. In this lecture Professor Moore will discuss the life experiences and legacy of African American women in the West.
Web Links * Links active as of May 2004
The Negro trail blazers of California; by Delilah Beasley, a journalist and historian who was the first black female reporter at The Oakland Tribune. Published in 1919 the book is a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley. PDF file. 40 mb. 318 pp
African American Women of the Old West
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/west/west.htm#women
African Americans in California - A Historical Timeline
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/africanamerican/timelines.html
William Alexander Leidesdorff - biography
http://www.sfmuseum.net/bio/leidesdorff.html
Mary Ellen Pleasant "Mother of Civil Rights in California"
http://www.mepleasant.com/
California Colored Women Trail Blazers --extract from--
"Negro trail blazers of California"
http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs-
b/wwm97253/@Generic__BookTextView/4569
PDF file. 40 mb. 318 pp