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Joanna Haigood’s ‘Sailing Away’: Black exodus from San Francisco 1858 and 2012
September 21, 2012
Sometimes one gets tired of living in a place that doesn’t want you there, Zaccho Artistic Director, Joanna Haigood, states at the reception Thursday at the California Historical Society. The only problem is 154 years later, Black people are still unwelcome in San Francisco, which is what “Sailing Away” addresses so eloquently without words.
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Filed Under: Culture Stories
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Filed Under: Culture Stories
Tags: abolitionists • African Americans • African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church • Alaska • Amara Tabor-Smith • Anthony Brown • Antioch • Antoine Hunter • Archy Lee • Battery Street • Bay Point • Bayview Hunters Point • Black civil rights • Black Panther Party for Self-Defense • Bobbie Seale • Brennan Center for Justice • Byb Chanel • Byb Chanel Bibene • California • California Historical Society • California Supreme Court • Canada • Cosmopolitan Coal & Wood Yard • Custom House Livery Stable • Daughters of the Revolution • Derethia DuVal • disenfranchise • El Dorado Hotel • Ellen Smith • Franchise League • freedom of speech • freedom to assemble • freemen • George Washington Dennis • Georgia • Grafton Tyler Brown • Historic New Millennium Edition • Jetta Martin • Jim Crow • Joanna Haigood • John Brown • John James Pleasant • Market Street • Mary Ellen Pleasant • Mary Ellen Pleasant Day • Matthew Wickett • Mechanics Monument • Mifflin Gibbs • Mirror of the Times • Mississippi • Mr. Gibbs • North Beach and Mission Railroad Co. • Occupy movement • Octavia and Bush • Old Saloon • Peter Lester • Pippa • Pittsburg • Powell Street • Raissa Simpson • Rhodessa Jones • Robert Henry Johnson • Rudolph Lapp • Sacramento • San Francisco • San Francisco Bay Area • San Francisco Herald • Sansome Street • Sara Lester • Shakiri • Shawn Ginwright • steamship “Commodore” • Suisun • Supreme Court justices • Texas • Travis Santell Rowland • Vacaville • Victoria British Columbia • voter ID laws • Voting Rights Act • Wanda Sabir • Washington Street • women of color • Zaccho Artistic Director • “Archy Lee: A California Fugitive Slave Case” • “Black Youth Rising” • “Newsy” • “Sailing Away" • “Shadow and Light: An Autobiography” • “Woman on the Move”
Wanda’s Picks for May
May 1, 2009
Shout out to First Lady Michelle Obama, who presented the bust of Queen Mother Sojourner Truth, a woman who experienced first hand the hardships of slavery, yet emerged strong, so strong she had to remind America she too was a woman, a woman deserving all the respect and honor reserved for privileged white women.
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Filed Under: Culture Stories
Tags: abolition of slavery • African heritage • Alfre Woodard • Andrea Turner • Andrew Bancroft • Anthony Veneziale • Ascension Praise Dancers • Attorney Attorney Jerry Brown • Barbara Dane • Ben Jealous • Ben Jones • Bill T. Jones • Billy Davis Jr. • Billy Strayhorn • Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) • Bob Weir • Brian Rodvien • Brwn Bflo • Butterscotch • Califia • capital punishment • Cascada de Flores • Charles Dutton • Christopher (Chris) Rodriguez • Conscious Daughters • Cynthia McKinney • Daveed Diggs • Debbie de Coudreaux • Denise Perrier • Diamano Coura • DJ Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist • Don Reed • Duke Ellington • Ed Begley Jr. • Eleanor Luis • Emancipation Hall • Evangeline Canonizado Buell • Evelyn Luluquisen • Faith Petric • First Lady Michelle Obama • Fredo Doumbe • Gasper Yanga • George "Jazzbeaux" Spencer • Harriet and Alex Bagwell • Henry Ramsey • Irwin Silber • Jacinta Vlach • James Monroe Iglehart • Jean-Marie Teno • Jean-Pierre Simons • Jetta Martin • Johannes Mehserle • John Burris • Johnny Symons • Jojo Kuo • Jon Fromer • Joo Wan Kim • Junius Courtney Big Band • Keith Sanchez • Kev Choice Ensemble • Kyle Canfield • Kyra Gordon • Lena Horne • Lynda Gutierrez • Marilyn McCoo • Mary Wilson • Maurice Engler • Melanie DeMore • Melina Jones • Michael Velez • Mike Smith • Mr. Majestic • Mystic Roots • Narada Michael Walden • Nat Courtney • Nicole Beharie • Nigel "Bokei" Jeffers • Nuruddin Farah • Olive Mitra • Orquesta Bakan • Oscar Grant • Pat Wynne • Pete Escovedo • President Pío de Jesus Pico • prison reform • Queen Mother Sojourner Truth • Raissa Simpson • Ralph Gordon Jazz • Ras D • Rashad Pridgen • Regina N. Kelly • Rev. Daima Clark • Richie Cunning • Robert Hillary King • Roswell Rudd • Rumbache • Sala Steinbach • Salif Keita • Salif Malimakone • San Francisco 8 • Sanjay Pardanani • Sebastião Salgado • Soulifted • Sting • suffrage • T-Kash • Takeo Wong • Tenshin Reb Anderson • The Soulcialites • Tim Disney • Toumani Diabaté • Trackademics and The Honor Roll • Trevor Traynor • Tru Boo • Umoja West African Dancers • Verna Gillis • Wanda Sabir • Widya Batin • women's rights • Youssou Ndour • Yuri Kochiyama • Zion I
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