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Famed Black Panther leader Huey Newton was arrested in Santa Cruz County on May 11, 1978. He was charged with ... [Read more] Americans of African lineage are a people whose historical legacy is of one bondage. Men and women stolen from their ... [Read more] [Read more] [Read more] [Read more] [Read more]
A Walk Through Time: Joseph Smallwood, by
Janet Krassow and Randy Krassow
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A Walk Through Time: "Uncle" Dave Boffman, by
Janet Krassow and Randy Krassow
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Uncle Dave's Story: The Life of Ex-Slave Dave Boffman, by
Phil Reader
A demoralized Dave Boffman moved back to town and went to work as a day laborer. He was employed for ... [Read more]
Uncle Dave's Story: The Life of Ex-Slave Dave Boffman, by
Phil Reader
For thirty-six years he lived quietly on a small homestead which was located atop a wooded hill at the end ... [Read more]
Oscar Thomas "O.T." Jackson, by
Phil Reader
As a young man, he had cut hair for a number of years at a small barber shop in the ... [Read more]
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Today the Miss California Pageant emphasizes its scholarship program, countering protesters who call the pageant a cotillion of debutants, wearing too much makeup and showing too much skin.
Some of those same complaints were lodged against the Miss California Pageant when it originated in Santa Cruz in 1924. It ..." [More]
Excerpted from Too Much Makeup, Too Much Skin: Pageant Protests Go Back to 1924 by Ross Eric Gibson
