1. Foshay Black History Presentation 2001
What do you know about
L. A.’s Black History?
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2. Topics to Be Covered
Who’s who
Quiz
Summary
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3. How California Got Its Name
In 1535, The Spaniard Hernan de Cortes sailed west from the coast of New Spain (Mexico) in search of a mythical island inhabited by strong, black women, and rich with gold. The island, called "California" in an account by Garcia Ordonez Montalvo in 1510, was ruled by the queen "Califia."
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4. History of Africans in Los Angeles
When did they arrive?
They were among the city’s founders – known as Los Pobladores.
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6. Rita Maria Valdez
Maria Rita Valdez, granddaughter of Luis Quintero, a Negro founder of Los Angeles in In the 1820's she acquired the rancho Rio Rodeo de Los Aguas which today is known as Beverly Hills. Their adobe was still standing across the road from the Beverly Hills Hotel as late as 1920.
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7. Francisco & Isidro Reyes
were grandsons of Juan Francisco Reyes, first Los Angeles mayor of African descent , who was also the first grantee of the San Fernando Valley.
Isidro Reyes lived in Santa Monica canyon where his father worked a large tract of land extending to what is now Hollywood. He was sent by his father to the Brea pits to sell tar to the Los Angeles people who used it for their roofs.
Photo-Charles Prudholme
Courtesy of California Historical Society/Ticor Title Insurance (Los Angeles) collection of historical photographs.
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8. Manuel Moreno
grandson of two mulatto founders of Los Angeles, Jose and Maria Guadalupe Moreno. Manuel was a farmer and was over 80 years old when this photo was taken in 1905.
Courtesy Of The L.A. County Museum Of Natural History
From Collection Of Miriam Matthews
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9. Gov. Pio Pico
Pio Pico, shown here with his wife, was the Governor of the Mexican state of California when the United States invaded. Pico organized the defense against the U.S. invaders, and histories of the conflict credit Pio Pico and his brother Andres with great determination in this unsuccessful effort to keep California part of Mexico. The Pico family was among the first settlers of the little town that today is the metropolis of Los Angeles. The those original settlers came from central Mexico and Sonora, and the majority of them had African heritage, according to 1790s census reports.
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10. Biddy Mason
Biddy Mason came to California as a slave in 1851 accompanied by her three daughters, Ellen, Harriet and Ann. They were freed by the courts in Biddy Mason purchased two lots between Spring and Broadway, Third and Fourth streets in 1866 for $ Thirty years later her heirs refused $200,000 for only a part of this land. Mrs. Mason helped several churches and many needy settlers during her lifetime thus making a lasting impression on the life of this city. She died in 1891 at the age of seventy-three.
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11. What world leader grew up near Foshay?
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12. Dr. Ralph Bunche
Few remember the name, much the achievements, of Dr. Ralph Johnson Bunch. Yet, this African-American mediator and U.N. diplomat was the first person of color anywhere in the world to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace
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13. Dr. Ralph Bunche
Ralph Bunche's successful negotiation of four armistice agreements that ended the first Arab-Israeli war in 1949, proved that the United Nations could fulfill its peacekeeping mandate. This was the first major challenge faced by the UN, and a great deal was at stake for the new international organization.
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14. Quiz Who was California named for? Who are Los Pobladores?
What did Rita Maria Valdez own?
What world leader and peacemaker of nations grew up near Foshay?
Who was the first black governor of California?
What former slave owned much of downtown?
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