Black History Resources

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

• Slavery Era Disclosure Ordinance Report
• 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
• 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 Prior to WWII

The Society’s Curated Reference List

• 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
• Miller, Paul, The Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights, African Americans in San Francisco
• “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
• 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