Why does this matter? What do representations of black Americans have to do with Disneyland? Having spent most of his youth in Missouri,...

The 1893 World’s Fair symbolized the United States’ ascendancy among the great powers of the world by celebrating its achievements,...

When local newspapers mentioned black Americans, it was typically in regard to crime, the “negro problem,” or some news of a lynching or...

In the late nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth, Southern California experienced an expansion of transcontinental,...

Orange County has never had a substantial black population, but black people have always been a part of Orange County. Though they did...

For some reason, from the winter of 1892 to the spring of 1897, local papers dedicated several news cycles to covering the alleged...

With the migration of white southerners to the Southland in the wake of the Civil War, more black Americans arrived in Orange County,...

The story of Orange County is typically seen as a story of post-war suburbanization. After World War II, new migrants - many veterans who...

Whereas narratives of Los Angeles emphasize the continual presence of people of African descent in its history - from Spanish settlement...