Shirley Moore is
a professor of history at California
State University, Sacramento, with
specialties in African-American history,
Western U.S. History and oral history.
She has worked on the CSUS Underground
Railroad Digital Archive projecthttp://digital.lib.csus.edu/curr/,
an online archive from California
State University, Sacramento which
seeks to provide insight into the
challenges blacks faced in California
of the 1800s. See related article
California slavery archive takes
digital format. http://www.csus.edu/news/102803slaveryArchive.stm.
The
Negro trail blazers of California;
by Delilah Beasley, a journalist
and historian who was the first
black female reporter at The
Oakland Tribune. Published
in 1919 the book is a compilation
of records from the California archives
in the Bancroft Library at the University
of California, in Berkeley. PDF file. 40 mb. 318 pp
PDF file. 40 mb. 318 pp