Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Sep 23, 2009, 12:22 pm
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Sep 21, 2009, 4:32 pm
Did you know that... African Americans from Los Angeles were investors in the El Dorado Gold Star Mine located in Nelson, Nevada between the towns of Las Vegas and Searchlight from 1909-33?
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Aug 28, 2009, 3:54 pm
Uncovering the Long History of Blacks in Mexico - Part I Alva Moore Stevenson My Afro-Mexican roots can be traced back to my grandfather Daniel Thornton. Born in Texas, he migrated to Mexico to escap...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Aug 28, 2009, 3:44 pm
The Thorntons: Saga of an Afro-Mexican Family Alva Moore Stevenson From Compton to Newark, with frequent headlines screeching about violence between Mexican and Black youth, one could easily be convi...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Aug 28, 2009, 3:39 pm
Uncovering the Long History of Blacks in Mexico—Part II Alva Moore Stevenson Africans have been in Mexico at least since 1510. Those who were imported as slaves resisted their oppression, as ...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 5:31 pm
George Perry Johnson was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 29, 1885; after his graduation from the Hampton Institute, Virginia (1904), he settled in Tulsa, Oklahoma and started the first Neg...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 5:29 pm
Biddy Mason (1818-1891) Mason traveled to Los Angeles with her owner, Robert Smith. and three small daughters. Arriving in 1851, Smith held Biddy and her children illegally in slavery for several yea...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 5:12 pm
Frederick Madison Roberts 1879-1952 The family of Frederick Madison Roberts (1879-1952) migrated to Los Angeles in the mid 1880s. By the teens of century he was editor of the New Age and a strong adv...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 10:31 am
My mother, Lydia Esther Thornton, was one of the first to enlist in World War II from her hometown of Nogales, Arizona. Bilingual and biracial (African American and Mexican heritage) she was given the...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 20, 2009, 1:37 pm
Did you know that… Gaspar Yanga (which means a king of people who belongs to royalty) is said to have descended from royalty in Gabon and was brought to Veracruz, Me�...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 20, 2009, 1:31 pm
Pio Píco (5 May 1801-11 Sept 1894), revolutionary, governor, city councilman, landowner and businessman was born Pio de Jesus Píco at the San Gabriel Mission in California. His ancestry was Af...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 20, 2009, 12:34 pm
Did you know that… Of the forty-four pobladores or settlers of Los Angeles (or El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula) on September 4, 1781--twenty-si...
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