Black History Resources

City & County of San Francisco. The Society made significant contributions

• Slavery Era Disclosure Ordinance
• African American Historical Context Statement

Other Museums and Libraries

• National Museum of African American History and Culture
• African American Museum and Library at Oakland
• African American Center, San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch
• Museum of the African Diaspora
• Association for the Study of African American Life and History
• Los Angeles County Library, Black Resource Center
• California African American Museum
• Check your local university (Ethnic, Black, Africana studies departments)

Local Notables and Citizens

• Changemakers, Biographies of African Americans in San Francisco that Made a Difference
• Oral History Project of the Urban School
• Oral Histories of San Francisco Afro-Americans Residing in San Francisco Prior to WWII

Independent Voices

• Planet Fillmore Developed and curated by Society member Lance Burton. Planet Fillmore contains narratives and images of historic events, people and places in San Francisco’s Black past and present.

The Society’s Curated Reference List

• “62 Heroes and Pioneers of the Western Addition,” San Francisco Redevelopment Agency-SFAAHCS
• Abajian, James, and Parker, Elizabeth, “A Walking Tour of the Black Presence in San Francisco in the Nineteenth Century,” SFAAHCS
• Beasley, Delilah, The Negro Trailblazers of California, 1919
• Broussard, Albert S., Black San Francisco - The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954
• Daniels, Douglas Henry, Pioneer Urbanites
• Hudson, Lynn M., The Making of Mammy Pleasant, A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth Century San Francisco, 2003
• Miller, Paul, The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights, African Americans in San Francisco
• Templeton, John Noted local historian speaks to local history
• Thurman, Sue Bailey, “Pioneers of Negro Origin in California,” (limited copies at Society)

To get a copy of a list, or to add references, email the Society.

• African Americans in San Francisco (a more detailed list of above)
• African American Quilts
• African Art
• Colonel Allensworth
• Delilah Beasley
•  James Dyer
• “A Day of Celebration”
• Mary Ellen Pleasant
• Zero Thomas and Joseph Crutchfield
• Berlinda Davidson Mabsen