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"The XIXth (The Nineteenth)" at The Old Globe is about the iconic protest of two Black American sprinters at the 1968 Olympic Games. Playwright Kemp Powers also cowrote Pixar's "Soul" and co-directed the forthcoming "Spider-Verse" sequels.
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Luke Easter, Artie Wilson, and Johnny Ritchey of the minor-league Padres. Ritchey was the first African American baseball player to join the San Diego Padres. In 1948, Ritchey broke the Pacific Coast League's color barrier when playing for the Padres and became known as "the Jackie Robinson of the West Coast." His debut came just one year after Robinson also broke the major league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. From then on, Ritchey played for the Padres as a catcher in both 1948 and 1949.
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Black Panthers serve breakfast to children at Christ of King Catholic Church in San Diego. July 25, 1969.
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In 1953, Dr. Jack Kimbrough, among others, established a local Urban League branch in San Diego. This group played a pivotal role after World War II in pushing for civil rights and full inclusion in the city’s growing economy. Some of the successful programs made possible by the San Diego Urban League included a vocation education program for city schools and the Adopt-A-Child program that represented a collaborative effort between several social service agencies.
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In 1880, a total of 55 Black Americans lived in the county. These residents were predominantly formerly enslaved and had migrated from the South. Sixty percent of this population resided in Julian. This photo from 1887 shows Albert Robinson and his wife, Margaret, in front of the Hotel Robinson in #Julian, which they owned and operated until 1921 (Margaret operated it by herself following Albert's death in 1915.)
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In 1924, Dennis V. Allen founded the San Diego Race Relations Society, a group that sought to end prejudice against racial, national and religious groups. This group was instrumental in pushing for desegregation in public spaces, as well as in challenging the denial of jobs because of religion, race or color. Dennis V. Allen, the president of the Race Relations Society, also helped expand employment opportunities for San Diego’s #Black community.⠀
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In 1913, Henrietta Goodwin (seated on right) was the first African American graduate from the State Normal School of San Diego, which is now San Diego State University.During this time, Goodwin was one of 15 graduates, and both The San Diego Union (now known as The Union Tribune) and her school failed to mention her on their list of students who graduated. Though she attended the school sporadically since 1908, both an attendance ledger and her registration record card confirmed that she graduated on Jan. 30, 1913.⠀
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Nathan Harrison by his Palomar Mountain cabin circa 1916.
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In 1887, the first Black church was founded in San Diego, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Solomon (right) and Cordelia Johnson (left) were key in the formation. Before the church was founded, the members of the church would meet in the Johnson’s home in downtown San Diego until there were enough funds raised to secure a church site.
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Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in San Diego on May 29, 1964, to both California Western University (now Point Loma Nazarene University) and San Diego State College (now SDSU) on the same day. In his speech at Cal Western, King spoke out against California’s Proposition 14, a ballot measure that would pass that November. This proposition repealed the Rumford Fair Housing Act of 1963 and allowed people to discriminate when selling or renting property. King’s address gave a national context to the issues of segregation and racism throughout Calif.
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