Thirteen essays examine the roles African-Americans played in the settling of the American West, discussing the slaves of Mormons and California gold miners; Af

The American West is mistakenly known as a region with few African Americans and virtually no black history. This work challenges that view in a chronicle that

Based on the latest research, this work provides a new look at the lives of African Americans in the Western United States, from the colonial era to the present

The literature of the African American West is the last racial discourse of the region that remains unexplored. Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in litera

In the late 1960s, African American protests and Black Power demonstrations in California’s Santa Clara County—including what’s now called Silicon Valley�