SCRC Libguide for Ethnic Studies

Grapevine Magazine

From 1969 to 1982, Grapevine Magazine highlighted hundreds of stories about African Americans in the fields of medicine, history, civil rights, education, religion, government, law, politics, business, sports and entertainment. Full of photographs, editorials and original art, the magazine’s run is a snapshot of African American life and style in the Valley’s pivotal post-civil rights era.         

•  Seeking El Dorado : African Americans in California  
• The Negro trail blazers of California; a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California ... A
• To place our deeds : the African American community in Richmond, California, 1910-1963
• The Pacific appeal.
• A case study of ghettoization and segregation : West Fresno's Black and Chicano community during the 1970s
• Black gold : faith, strength, and determination shaping our community
• Fresno area Black leadership directory : biographical sketches and photos of Fresno-area Black citizens, leaders
• The Grapevine magazine.
• Achievements of the negro in California
• Negro who's who in California.
• Pioneers of Negro origin in California
• A pictorial history of Allensworth : a unique Black town
• Census tracts, 1970
• Proceedings of the first State Convention of the Colored Citizens of the State of California, 1855, 1856, 1865
• Allensworth, a study in social change
• A social history of Negroes in California, 1860-1900
• California's Black pioneers: a brief historical survey
• Archy Lee : a California fugitive slave case
• Mother Lode race incident; letters between two lodges of the I.O.O.F. regarding alleged misconduct on the part