African American Migration to California
This lesson plan will allow students to connect to the stories and lives of people who made the choice or were forced to come to California. This lesson is designed as a supplement to foundational lessons about the westward migration during the 19th century. This lesson focuses on linking J.L. Edmonds and his Los Angeles Liberator newspaper with the colonization efforts of Colonel Allensworth and residents of Fresno County’s Boles (Fowler) African American community pictured in the Hutchinson Collection in connection to the recent exhibit at the California African American Museum, California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier.
Fresno County Historical Society Archives.
LESSON AND INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL
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LESSON PLAN - African American Migration to California
Fresno County Historical Society.
Assessment Rubric for Narrative
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES
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California Bound: Slavery on the New Frontier, 1848–1865
a California African American Museum Exhibition curated by: Tyree Boyd-Pates, History Curator and Program Manager, and Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Assistant History Curator
The Lesser-Known History of Slavery in California:
California Bound recounts a tumultuous history of mass migration, displacement, and litigation that led to the establishment of California’s earliest African American communities, by Abe Ahn
California's Black Pioneers The "Old Timers"
The J.L. Edmonds Project
Abolitionist Leader William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionists, American Experience, PBS
Allensworth: California’s First Black Community, History.net
The Hutchinson Glass Plate Negative Collection, 1914. Click on the image to view larger.
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