Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990

by Herbert G. Ruffin

Book Overview

In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California's Santa Clara County--including what's now called Silicon Valley--took many observers by surprise. After all, as far back as the 1890s, the California constitution had legally abolished most forms of racial discrimination, and subsequent legal reform had surely taken care of the rest. White Americans might even have wondered where the black activists in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806154179
• ISBN13: 9780806154176
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"