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California History
California History (2025) 102 (1): 24–43.
Published: 01 February 2025
... Americans from California. During the war, Elliott worked with local business leaders to pressure the military to extend the exclusion zone to the eastern parts of Tulare and Kern counties—sites that were initially categorized by the Army as places where Japanese Americans could resettle in order to avoid...
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“For Us, There Are No More Back Doors”: California’s Proposition 187, the Paradoxes of Immigration Control, and the Long Struggle for Immigrants’ Rights
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California History (2023) 100 (3): 2–23.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Eladio B. Bobadilla This article argues that the nativist-led referendum known as Proposition 187, which in 1994 sought to deny undocumented immigrants and their families access to many of the state’s social services, represents a set of paradoxes about Latino immigration to California...
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The Railroad Giveth and the Railroad Taketh Away: The Santa Fe Railway, Route 66, and the Development of Seligman, Arizona, 1910–1985
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California History (2021) 98 (3): 54–77.
Published: 01 August 2021
... communities like Barstow, California. Although the diversion of highway travelers off of Route 66 and away from town by the I-40 bypass hurt Seligman businesses, it was the loss of railroad workers’ local spending that put its economy in decline. This argument is discussed within the additional context...
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“It’s Hip to Unzip”: Open-Land Communes and Their Neighbors in Northern California, 1966–1979
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California History (2021) 98 (2): 100–126.
Published: 01 May 2021
...John Stuart Miller This article considers the histories of two countercultural, “back-to-the-land” communes located in Northern California: Siskiyou County’s Black Bear Ranch and Sonoma County’s Morning Star Ranch. Both communes were highly influenced by the concept of “open land...
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Black Student Unions to the Gang of Four: Interracial Alliances and Community Organizing from San Francisco to Seattle
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California History (2021) 98 (2): 24–49.
Published: 01 May 2021
... challenge the dominant narrative of the movement, which characterizes Black Power as myopic, destructive, and a departure from the prosocial protests of the 1960s. © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 African American black students 1960s Black Student Union Black Power...
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Women Rising: The California Legislative Women’s Caucus
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California History
California History (2020) 97 (4): 119–132.
Published: 24 December 2020
...Senator Connie M. Leyva The California Legislative Women’s Caucus has been a strong bipartisan and bicameral advocate for women and children since its founding in 1985. In 2020, more women have been elected at one time than ever before, making up 31.6 percent of the legislature...
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From Socialite to Public Servant: Luella Johnston and the Evolution of “True Womanhood” in Sacramento
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California History (2020) 97 (4): 83–114.
Published: 24 December 2020
...Nicolas Heidorn In 1912, one year after women won the right to vote in California, Luella Johnston became the first woman elected to Sacramento’s city council, and to any city council in the state. She played an integral role linking the local clubwomen, progressive, and suffrage movements...
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Beautiful Beach Bodies and Muscle Heads: California's Endless Summer Movies in the Early 1960s
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California History (2020) 97 (2): 112–123.
Published: 01 May 2020
...John D. Fair Uneasily situated between counterculture images projected by James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and the dawning of the “Age of Aquarius” a decade later, there emerged a motion picture interlude of innocence on the beaches of Southern California. It was fostered by Gidget (1959...
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Rewriting the Narrative: American Indian Artists in California, 1960s–1980s
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California History (2019) 96 (4): 54–77.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Nicolas G. Rosenthal A vibrant American Indian art scene developed in California from the 1960s to the 1980s, with links to a broader indigenous arts movement. Native American artists working in the state produced and exhibited paintings, prints, sculptures, mixed media, and other art forms...
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A Dark History Hits Home: California's Governor Apologizes for the State's Native Genocide and Takes a First Step Toward Healing
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California History (2019) 96 (4): 78–87.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Robert Aquinas McNally In June 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom apologized to tribal leaders for the genocide his predecessors waged against California's Native peoples, the most comprehensive such admission to date at the state level. The apology broke through widespread public denial...
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The Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment in California
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California History
California History (2019) 96 (3): 2–24.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Doreen J. Mattingly In California, the 1972 campaign to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution pitted amendment supporters against labor leaders trying to protect women-only protective labor laws. The seven-month struggle in California resulted in a vote for ratification...
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Victory Abroad, Disaster at Home: Environment, Race, and World War II Shipyard Production
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California History (2017) 94 (3): 20–36.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Alistair W. Fortson Richmond, California, a small industrial center north of Oakland and just east of San Francisco, expanded from a prewar population of 23,000 to more than 100,000 permanent residents in 1942. While Henry J. Kaiser's shipbuilding corporation advertised for—and city leaders sought...
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Understanding California's Trump Country: Note: The following piece originally appeared at KCET.com on Inauguration Day, 2017 .
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California History
California History (2017) 94 (1): 1–3.
Published: 01 May 2017
... © 2017 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017...
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Lifting the Veil: Public-Private Surveillance Networks and the Red Scare in California Higher Education
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California History (2014) 91 (4): 43–55.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Scott Pittman The story of anti-communism in California schools is a tale well and often told. But few scholars have appreciated the important role played by private surveillance networks. This article examines how privately funded and run investigations shaped the state government’s pursuit...
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“Ya Basta?!” Ronald Reagan's 1966 Success with Mexican American Voters
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California History (2014) 91 (4): 31–42.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Gene Kopelson President Ronald Reagan often is remembered for his ability to attract disaffected Democrats—the “Reagan Democrats”—to vote Republican. Yet, long before his first Presidential victory in 1980, Reagan garnered their votes in the 1966 California gubernatorial election. In beating...
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The Sunland Grizzly: Reprinted from Natural History , June 2014, copyright © Natural History Magazine, Inc., 2014
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California History
California History (2014) 91 (4): 56–63.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Josh Sides In 1916, Cornelius Birket Johnson, a Los Angeles fruit farmer, killed the last known grizzly bear in Southern California and the second-to last confirmed grizzly bear in the entire state of California. Johnson was neither a sportsman nor a glory hound; he simply hunted down the animal...