California 175 – Women of Courage Kickoff Receptiin

California 175 – Women of Courage reflects upon the need to document the stories of early California Pioneers in the 1854 California Gold Mining District.

2025 Black History Month we remember Negro Village, Negro Bar, Negro Hill, Negro Bluff nearly all distorted, disparaged and destroyed, for recreational sport.  The ”hidden figures” of Women Pioneers of Pan African Ancestry come alive on the way to California Admission Day.

California 175- Women of Courage, Today honoree include:

“A mind is a terrible thing to waste”

United Negro College Fund

Established in 1844, Rancho Rio de Los Americanos, entitled to Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. remains a special part of the Leidesdorff Legacy.