The Negro trail blazers of California [microform] : a ... - Homestead

CONTENTS
Foreword—Charlotte A. Bass, Managing Editor of the California Eagle, Los Angeles.
Dedication.
Preface.
Authorities Consulted.
PART I.
Historical Section
Chapter I.—Discovery of the Name California.
Chapter II.—Beginning of the Discovery of California, with Friar Marco, and the
Negro Guide, Estevancio, together with Coronado and the Negro Priest,
and the final discovery by Cortez, the ex-Viceroy of Mexico.
Chapter III.—End of the Spanish Rule in California.
Chapter IV.—Bear Flag Party.
Chapter V.—Landing of Commodore John D. Sloate.
Chapter VI.—Admission of California to the Union.
Chapter VII.—Pony Express.
Chapter VIII.—Right of Testimony, Homestead Law, Elective Franchise.
Chapter IX.—Slavery in California, together with Freedom Papers.
PART II.
The Chronicles of the Trail Blazers—a biographical Section. This section will appeal to
the reader in that it contains a chapter on The First Colored Settlers on the Pacific
Coast, a Pioneer List, and Negro Forty-Niners who were Miners.
Chapter X.—First Colored Settlers and Pioneer List.
Chapter XI.—Negro Miners, and Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People, at Beulah.
Chapter XII.—Biographical Sketches.
PART III.
Present Day Negro of California.
Chapter XIII.—Just California.
Chapter XIV.—Something of the Negro Churches.
Chapter XV.—Education.
Chapter XVI.—Law.
Chapter XVII.—Music.
Chapter XVIII.—Distinguished Women.
Chapter XIX.—Doctors, and Dentists.
Chapter XX.—Literary, comprizing a full account of all the Negro Newspapers ever
published in California and which were a factor in the development of
the race.
Chapter XXI.—United States Negro Army Officers, both retired, and living in the State,
and those who served in the National Army in France.
Chapter XXII.—The Negro at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
(This chapter has been published in a series of articles in the
Oakland Tribune by the author).
Chapter XXIII.—The End of the Trail.
Chapter XXIV—Notes on the Text; which will serve the place of foot-notes and is much
easier to read.