Wed February 24, 2016
San Francisco, World War II, and African Americans
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at San Francisco Public Library Excelsior Branch
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San Francisco and the Bay Area were critical hubs of America’s World War II shipbuilding and other war effort support operations. African Americans from all over the country, seeking employment and safe harbor from Jim Crow policies, flocked to northern California in great numbers. The late Rev. John N. Doggett migrated to San Francisco in 1945 as a young minister to work with African Americans working in Hunters Point as shipbuilders. His son, Bill Doggett, will talk about African Americans in San Francisco during World War II.
Bill Doggett is an award winning historian/archivist who offers a variety of presentations throughout the Bay Area. His work on African American concert singers in San Francisco will appear in this summer’s issue of The Argonaut. Doggett was also an exhibitor at the San Francisco History Expo in 2014 and 2015
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Bill Doggett is an award winning historian/archivist who offers a variety of presentations throughout the Bay Area. His work on African American concert singers in San Francisco will appear in this summer’s issue of The Argonaut. Doggett was also an exhibitor at the San Francisco History Expo in 2014 and 2015
San Francisco and the Bay Area were critical hubs of America’s World War II shipbuilding and other war effort support operations. African Americans from all over the country, seeking employment and safe harbor from Jim Crow policies, flocked to northern California in great numbers. The late Rev. John N. Doggett migrated to San Francisco in 1945 as a young minister to work with African Americans working in Hunters Point as shipbuilders. His son, Bill Doggett, will talk about African Americans in San Francisco during World War II.
Bill Doggett is an award winning historian/archivist who offers a variety of presentations throughout the Bay Area. His work on African American concert singers in San Francisco will appear in this summer’s issue of The Argonaut. Doggett was also an exhibitor at the San Francisco History Expo in 2014 and 2015
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Bill Doggett is an award winning historian/archivist who offers a variety of presentations throughout the Bay Area. His work on African American concert singers in San Francisco will appear in this summer’s issue of The Argonaut. Doggett was also an exhibitor at the San Francisco History Expo in 2014 and 2015
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San Francisco Public Library Excelsior Branch
4400 Mission , San Francisco, CA 94112
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