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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Sep 21, 2009, 5:32 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 - Sep 21, 2009, 5:32 pm
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Aug 28, 2009, 4:54 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 escape the racism of the United States around the dawn of the 20st century. There he married my grandmothe...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Aug 28, 2009, 4:54 pm
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Aug 28, 2009, 4:44 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 convinced that relations between the two groups have always been brimming with hostility. The media’s em...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Aug 28, 2009, 4:44 pm
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Aug 28, 2009, 4:39 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 in other parts of the Americas. In my last article for VidaAfroLatina.com, I wrote about one of the most fa...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Aug 28, 2009, 4:39 pm
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 6:31 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 Negro paper in the territory, The Tulsa Guide (June 9, 1906); moved to Omaha, Nebraska (1913) and was t...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 6:31 pm
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 6:29 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 years. California had never been a slave state. Biddy petitioned the court and won her freedom and that...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 6:12 pm
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 6:12 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 advocate for African American civil rights in Los Angeles. Mr. Roberts and his publication were a stron...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 11:31 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 option of joining either a Black or White unit. She chose the Black unit (6888th Central Postal Dir...
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Alva Stevenson posted an article on Afro West - Jul 21, 2009, 11:31 am
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