San Francisco is rich in civil rights history – but you may have walked past certain street corners many times and not realized that battles were fought there for labor rights, lesbian and gay equality, freedom of expression, disability rights and more. Join Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, coauthors of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California takes us on a virtual tour that uncovers San Francisco’s hidden history – from the Yick Wo Laundry, whose owner challenged anti-Chinese laws, to the Votes for Women Club where working women organized their victorious campaign for suffrage, to the site of a police raid on a lesbian and gay New Year’s Eve gala that predated Stonewall.
Related exhibit: Wherever There's a Fight: A History of Civil Liberties in California, Feburary 10 - April 7, 2013, San Francisco History Center.
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- Thursday, June 20, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B - Radar Reading
- Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic B - San Francisco's West of Twin Peaks
- Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Merced - Open Books: C.W. Gortner
- Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B - Islands of San Francisco Bay
- Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial - A Vision of Angels
- Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Main Library, Gay & Lesbian Center - Season of the Witch
- Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Excelsior - Bay Area Beauty
- Saturday, July 20, 2013
Visitacion Valley - Petals in the Dust: The Endangered Indian Girls
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Main Library, Koret Auditorium - Bay Area Beauty: The Artistry of Harold G. Stoner, Architect
- Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Glen Park
