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Carl Metoyer (1953): [134] First African American male to serve as the President of the Alameda County Bar Association (1970) Ming Chin (1967): [135] First Asian American male to serve as the President of the Alameda County Bar Association (c. 1987) Ken M. Kawaichi: [136] [137] First Asian American male judge in Alameda County, California (1980)
Alameda County Municipal Court (1992–1998); Alameda County Superior Court (1998– ) California: active: Irene Berger [59] Kanawha County Circuit Court (1994–2009); United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia (2009– ) West Virginia: active: Karen Bethea-Shields [60] North Carolina 14th District Court (1980 ...
Pío Pico, California's last governor under Mexican rule, was of mixed Spanish, Native American, and African descent Juana Briones de Miranda, the "founding mother of San Francisco", was of mixed-race with African ancestry "Ex-Service Men's Club" (1940), an African American bar in Sunset District in East Bakersfield, Kern County, California African American worker Richmond Shipyards (April ...
Elam Brown was born on June 10, 1797, in Herkimer, New York, to parents Major Thomas Brown and Elizabeth "Betsy" Lynde, farmers.Thomas was a pioneer in his own right, bringing his family into the wilderness of Ohio, where they were some of the first settlers in what is today Delaware County, Thomas building the first brick house in the township of Berkshire, briefly serving as Major of the ...
The Black Cat Bar or Black Cat Café was a bar in San Francisco, California. It originally opened in 1906 and closed in 1921. It originally opened in 1906 and closed in 1921. The Black Cat re-opened in 1933 and operated for another 30 years.
The Patch was an LGBT bar formerly located at 610 W. Pacific Coast Highway in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, California.The Patch, along with the Black Cat Tavern, played a pivotal role in the gay rights movement, when, in August 1968, it was one of the first sites where there was open resistance to the constant police harassment of gay establishments and meeting places in ...
Since 1957, the camp has had a significant influence in many facets of San Francisco Bay Area music, including the San Francisco Symphony, the orchestras for the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Ballet, and Tower of Power, an Oakland, California 10-member horn-based soul band formed in 1968. The first few years the camp consisted of ...
In 2010, Playboy named Jasper's, a local bar, one of the top 10 dive bars in the country. [77] The bar is the setting of the classic 1940 W. C. Fields comedy The Bank Dick . Lompoc is also frequently referred to in the TV cartoon series Roger Ramjet , though consistently mispronounced "Lom-pock". [ 78 ]