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[[Image:William Leidesdorff.jpg|border|right|200x300px|William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. (October 23, 1810 – May 18, 1848), one of the earliest mixed-race U.S. citizens in California]]  
[[Image:William Leidesdorff.jpg|border|right|200x300px|William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. (October 23, 1810 – May 18, 1848), one of the earliest mixed-race U.S. citizens in California]]  


== Introduction  ==
=== Introduction  ===


== <br>A Research Strategy  ==
=== A Research Strategy  ===


== <br>Archives and Libraries  ==
==== Archives and Libraries  ===


Click [[County of Los Angeles Public Libraries#African_American_Resources|here]] to learn about African American Resources in Los Angeles.  
Click [[County of Los Angeles Public Libraries#African_American_Resources|here]] to learn about African American Resources in Los Angeles.  


== Vital Records  ==
=== Vital Records  ===


==== Birth Records  ====
==== Birth Records  ====


==== Marirage Records  ====
==== Marriage Records  ====


==== Death Records  ====
==== Death Records  ====


== <br>Biography  ==
=== Biography  ===


*Beasley, Delilah Leontium. ''The Negro Trail Blazers of California '': a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and converstations of old pioneers in the State of California. Los Angeles:[s.n.], - 317 p.: ill, ports F870.N38 B3 1919b FHL book 979.4 F2be  
*Beasley, Delilah Leontium. ''The Negro Trail Blazers of California '': a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California. Los Angeles:[s.n.], - 317 p.: ill, ports F870.N38 B3 1919b FHL book 979.4 F2be  
*Goode, Kenneth F. ''California's Black Pioneers: A Brief Historical Survey''. Santa Barbara, Calif.&nbsp;: McNally &amp; Loftin, 1974 [c1974].- xiii, 222p.:ill. E185.93 C2G66 1974  
*Goode, Kenneth F. ''California's Black Pioneers: A Brief Historical Survey''. Santa Barbara, Calif.&nbsp;: McNally &amp; Loftin, 1974 [c1974].- xiii, 222p.:ill. E185.93 C2G66 1974  
*Lapp, Rudolph M. Blacks in Gold Rush California New Haven:Yale university Press, 1977 - xiv, 321 p., (Yale Western Americana Series; 29) E185.C2 L36
*Lapp, Rudolph M. Blacks in Gold Rush California New Haven:Yale university Press, 1977 - xiv, 321 p., (Yale Western Americana Series; 29) E185.C2 L36
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*Parker, Elizabeth L. and James Abajian. ''A Walking tour of the Black Presence in San Francisco during the nineteenth century'': A Black history week event; - [San Francisco]: San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society 1974. - 23 p.: ill F869.S3 P22
*Parker, Elizabeth L. and James Abajian. ''A Walking tour of the Black Presence in San Francisco during the nineteenth century'': A Black history week event; - [San Francisco]: San Francisco African American Historical and Cultural Society 1974. - 23 p.: ill F869.S3 P22


== <br>Census ==
== <br>CensusRecords ==
 
== Church Records ==
 
Los Angeles
 
First M.M.E. Churtch,&nbsp; (1872- ) [http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/first-african-methodist-episcopal-church-1872 History]
 
Sacramento
 
St Andrews A.M.E. Church, (1850-)&nbsp; [http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/st-andrews-ame-church-1850 History]
 
San Jose
 
Antioch Baptist Church, (1868-) [http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/antioch-baptist-church-san-jose-california-1893 History]


== <br>Funeral Homes  ==
== <br>Funeral Homes  ==
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== <br>Newspapers  ==
== <br>Newspapers  ==


== <br>Military ==
== <br>Military Records ==


== <br>Probate Records  ==
== <br>Probate Records  ==
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