African Americans in the Rural San Joaquin Valley, California: : Colonization Efforts and Townships

by Michael Eissinger

This ethnohistorical study examines rural 19th and 20th century African American enclaves across the agricultural landscape of California's Central Valley. Agricultural labor contractors, beginning in the 1880s, recruited large numbers of southern African Americans. This thesis focuses on several almost invisible black communities from that period.Eissinger differentiates planned colonies, such as Allensworth from other historically African American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1440486670
• ISBN13: 9781440486678
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"