Black Churches, Peoples Temple, and Civil Rights Politics in San Francisco

• Published in: From Every Mountainside pp. 85 - 110
• Main Author: Taylor, James Lance
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: State University of New York Press 27.06.2013; SUNY Press
• ISBN: 9781438447247; 1438447248
• DOI: 10.1515/9781438447261-006

The black freedom struggle in Northern California conflated around persistent problems of residential segregation, job discrimination, education policy, police brutality, and housing which African Americans across the region faced in the decades between World War II and the turbulence of the Black Power phase of the struggle. In cities such as Richmond, Alameda, Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco, local leaders, assorted groups and organizations, and community institutions confronted many of the challenges taken up by the larger effort. As the region’s African American population increased from less than 18,000 in the 1940s to more than 235, 000 in Oakland and