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Delilah Beasley

Delilah Leontium Beasley (September 9, 1867 – August 18, 1934), was a historian and newspaper columnist for the Oakland Tribune in Oakland, California.[1] Beasley was the first African-American woman to be published regularly in a major metropolitan newspaper.[2][3] Beasley was also first to present written proof of the existence of California's black pioneers in her book Slavery in California (1918) and her classic, The Negro Trail-Blazers of California (1919). Her career in journalism spanned more than 50 years. She detailed the racial problems in California and the heroic achievements by Blacks to overcome them during the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Delilah L. Beasley
Delilah L. Beasley, from a 1919 publication
BornSeptember 9, 1867
DiedAugust 18, 1934
Occupation(s)Historian, columnist

Biography Edit

Beasley was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the oldest of five children in the family of Daniel Beasley, an engineer, and Margaret Harris, a homemaker.[4] After her parents' death while she was still a teenager, Beasley had to find a full-time job to support herself, and she pursued a career as a trained masseuse.[5][6]

She began her newspaper career in 1883 writing for a black newspaper, the Cleveland Gazette,[7] founded by Harry C. Smith.[8] She wrote briefly about church and social activities. Three years later, she published her first column in the Sunday Cincinnati, Ohio Enquirer under the headline "Mosaics". Beasley studied journalism under Daniel Rudd, a well-known newspaper publisher of the Colored Catholic Tribune in Cincinnati.[9] She, like Rudd, was a devout Catholic.

In 1910, at age 39, Beasley moved to Oakland, California,[10] attending lectures and researching at University of California, Berkeley and writing essays for presentations at local churches. In 1910 the African American population in Oakland was 3,055.[11] The small black population supported a flowering of indigenous institutions and community formation in the 10s and 20s. Among these institutions were various black-owned small businesses, churches, and private social-welfare organizations. In addition, several black newspapers were published in Oakland, including the Oakland Sunshine, which began publication in 1902, publisher William Prince, and the Western Outlook, established in 1894, publishers J. S. Francis and J. L. Derrick.[12][13] In 1915, she wrote for a black audience in the Oakland Sunshine.[14]

Trail-Blazers book Edit

Delilah Beasley chronicled African American "firsts" and notable achievements in early California in her book The Negro Trail-Blazers of California (1919), which is a compilation of records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, found in newspapers from 1848 to the 1890s, and most particularly all the black newspapers from the first in 1855 through 1919. Beasley's Trail-Blazers book included diaries, biographical sketches, poetry, photographs, old papers, conversations with old pioneers, and a comprehensive history of early legislation and court cases. Beasley's informative compilation of records is full of success stories. It gives many hundreds of names of blacks in California from the pioneer period to the late 19th century.

Beasley writes about the black gold miners of the late 1840s:

"A history of the Negro people of California would be incomplete without mention of the mining men who came in 1849. There were at one time several hundred Negro miners working claims on Mormon and Mokelumn Hill, at Placerville, Grass Valley and elsewhere in California mountains. One such man was Moses Rodgers a mining expert and was considered one of the best mining engineers in the state. He was also a metallurgist and owned a group of mines at Hornitus. The colored miners rarely took a chance in buying mining stock. He had more sacred duties to perform with his money. He either used it to pay for the freedom or liberty of himself, his family or other loved ones in faraway "Dixie-Land". If not that, then he contributed largely from his diggings to assisting the "Executive Committee of the Colored Convention" in their struggles to secure legislative enactments in the interest of the Negro race in California".[15]

Beasley spent nine years writing her book, which is important to historians of California and the West, and of African American western history. She knew many people who had been in California from the beginning of statehood and before. So much of what we know of California black pioneers grows out of her book.[16] One of her possible heroes in the book was Lt. Col. Allen Allensworth, in 1908 founder of an all African American town in Allensworth, California, now a state park, Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. Beasley wrote, "The late Colonel Allensworth was born a slave, and yet there are few, if any, who have made more out of life and done more for their fellow man".[17]

 
Photograph of a woman in the book

Delilah Beasley placed women prominently in her book. Over the next four decades, no other major works followed Beasley's volume. One might expect a plethora of articles and books concerning various aspects of black women's history during and immediately following the civil rights movements of the 1910s. Yet western black women received little attention.[18]

Newspaper columnist Edit

Her work on the book The Negro Trail-Blazers paved the way for Beasley to become the first Black woman in California to write regularly for a major metropolitan newspaper. By 1925 Delilah was writing regularly for the Oakland Tribune, whose Sunday column Activities Among Negroes was authored by Beasley. She often spent far over forty hours a week collecting material for her column. She wrote about churches, social events, women's clubs, literary societies, and local as well as national politics. Beasley's motivation was to give the white readers of the Oakland Tribune a positive picture of the black community by documenting the achievements of successful black men and women, both in Oakland and elsewhere. By highlighting such items, she served the larger goal of demonstrating the capabilities of African-Americans while building a strong constituency for her column and a network of sources from whom she could count on receiving information. There is no doubt that in performing this service she laid an important part of the groundwork for the expanded inter-racial cooperation that developed during the Depression era of the 1930s. Richard Dillon, whose book on California Pioneers highlighted special qualities of their unusual and stimulating lives, wrote that Beasley was "born 50 years before her time".[19] Beasley wrote for the Oakland Tribune from 1925–1934.[20]

Community service and social activist Edit

Beasley, who never married, belonged to many civic organizations, including The Delilah L. Beasley Literary and Improvement Club, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), northern California branch founded in 1915, headquarters in Oakland. She was a member of the Alameda County League of Women Voters, the Public Welfare League of Alameda County, and the League of Nations Association of the California Federated Women's Club, which hosted the biennial convention in the Oakland Auditorium, attracting delegates from across the country.[21] In 1920, Oakland's black club women, including Delilah Beasley and others, organized the Linden Center Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) to combat the cold reception extended to them by the all-white branches in the city. The Linden Center YWCA provided an array of services, including "religious and vocational training, adult education, counseling services, and a full calendar of recreational and cultural programs".[22] In the mid-1920s, Beasley was a national historian of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW),[23] and the Alameda County League of Colored Women Voters, devoted press coverage to both in her column, Activities Among Negroes, which ran in the white daily, the Oakland Tribune.[24]

 
Oakland Tribune, February 12, 1933

In 1929, Beasley also used her professional skills and prominence in international groups to rebut white fears about the consequences of creating an International House at the University of California, Berkeley. Many Berkeley landlords protested the construction of the House, fearing an influx of foreigners. International House at UC Berkeley is a multi-cultural residence and program center serving students, the local community and alumni worldwide. Its mission is to foster intercultural respect, understanding, lifelong friendships and leadership skills for the promotion of a more tolerant and peaceful world. The university wrote: "More than 800 people gathered in Berkeley to protest racial integration in the proposed International House. At that meeting, Delilah Beasley, a black reporter for the Oakland Tribune, passionately defended the concept to a disgruntled and stunned audience. And it was Beasley who stood up to the protests of property owners who feared that I-House would cause Berkeley to be overrun with Blacks and Asians".[25] Notable I-House alumni and residents are, Delbert E. Wong, Jerry Brown, Oona King, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Rose Bird, F. Drew Gaffney, Eric E. Schmidt, and Sadako Ogata.[26]

The weekly column she wrote for the newspaper, Activities Among Negroes, enhanced her standing in the community because of her ability to generate favorable publicity for black political struggles. Recognition of her ability to influence the white community strengthened her status within both white and black communities. She confronted misconceptions and contradictions as a newspaper journalist, and campaign against the use in the press of explicitly derogatory words when writing about African Americans.[27] In 1932, Beasley organized the donation of a painting by a Black artist to the Oakland Museum. Due to her efforts as president of the “Far Western Inter-Racial Committee,” a painting by Eugene Burk, titled "The Slave Mother" was unveiled and presented to gallery director William Clapp, with Beasley expressing hope that "the presentation of this picture to the permanent collection of the Oakland Municipal Art may be the means of opening many doors to young aspiring Negroes, not only of Oakland but of the United States." Clapp responded,

"We feel a very great appreciation of the thought and effort. Even under normal conditions the gift would be remarkable, since it is the first presented in this gallery as a formal expression of racial culture. It is also noteworthy because it is the first work of art that has been presented to the gallery by an organized group of citizens".[28]

In 1933, it was at Beasley's urging that California State Assemblyman William F. Knowland, then assistant publisher of the Oakland Tribune, and Assemblyman Frederick M. Roberts of Los Angeles County, introduced an anti-lynching bill, that passed unanimously in both branches of the California Legislature.[29][30] It was the state's first mob violence law.[31][32] The majority of lynching in California between 1850 and 1935 were perpetrated against Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans.[33]

Death Edit

Delilah Leontium Beasley died on August 18, 1934, at Fairmont Hospital in San Leandro, California. According to her death certificate, the cause of death was arterio-sclerotic heart disease with hypertension. Her home at that time was listed as being in Oakland, California. She was laid to rest at Saint Mary Cemetery in Oakland. Twenty years later, a monument was erected, and a perpetual care endowed. Carved on the old tombstone is a simple epitaph: "Author and columnist, a native of Ohio and for 25 years a resident of Oakland."[34]

Legacy Edit

Veteran and student journalists are honored with the Hall of Fame & Scholarship Awards of the Cincinnati chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, with the "Delilah Leontium Beasley Scholar" awards.[35]

Works by Beasley Edit

  • Beasley, Delilah L. "Slavery in California", Journal of Negro History, vol. 3, (January 1919) (includes California Freedom Papers (1851–1856)[36]
  • ___________. The Negro Trail-Blazers of California (1919), reprinted 1969, 1997 & 2004 – ISBN 978-1-885852-40-3
  • ___________. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Biennial Convention, National Association of Colored Women: Held in Municipal Auditorium, Oakland, California, July 29 to August 6, 1926

Resources Edit

  • Brown, Hallie Q. Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction (1925), Oxford University Press, reprinted (1988), Oxford University Press. – ISBN 0-19-505237-4
  • Crouchett, Lorraine Jacobs. Delilah Leontium Beasley: Oakland's Crusading Journalist, El Cerrito, California, Downey Place Publishing House, (1990) – ISBN 0-910823-03-0
  • Hine, Darlene, et al. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, Carlson Publishing Inc., (1994) – ISBN 0-926019-61-9
  • Roses, Lorraine E. Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing, 1900–1950, Harvard University Press (1997) – ISBN 0-674-37270-0
  • Streitmatter, Roger. Delilah, Beasley: A Black Woman Journalist Who Lifted As She Climbed, American Journalism Historians Association, October 1991, Philadelphia
  • Wheeler, B. Gordon. Black California: The History of African-Americans in the Golden State, Hippocrene Books, New York, (1993) – ISBN 0-7818-0074-9

References Edit

  1. ^ Batker, Carol J. Reforming Fictions: Native, African, and Jewish American Women's Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era, Columbia University Press, p. 147 (2002) – ISBN 0-231-11850-3.
  2. ^ Traeger, James. The Women's Chronology, Henry Holt & Company, Inc, p. 345 (1994) – ISBN 1-85410-390-3
  3. ^ Riley, Sam G. Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists, Greenwood Press, p. 24 (1995) – ISBN 0-313-29192-6.
  4. ^ Rodger Streitmatter, Raising Her Voice: African-American Women Journalists who Changed History, University Press of Kentucky, p. 74, (1994) – ISBN 0-8131-0830-6
  5. ^ Appiah, Kwame Anthony & Gates, Henry Louis. Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Basic Civitas Books, p. 207 (1999) – ISBN 0-465-00071-1
  6. ^ "Rebel Girls From Bay Area History: Delilah L. Beasley, Pioneering Journalist". KQED. March 9, 2018. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
  7. ^ Darlene Clark Hine. Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, Carlson Pub., p. 664 (1993) – ISBN 0-926019-61-9
  8. ^ "ohiohistory.org / The African American Experience in Ohio, 1850-1920 / Cleveland Gazette". dbs.ohiohistory.org.
  9. ^ Oakland Tribune, February 6, 1972, Museum Will Mark Black History Week
  10. ^ Kevin Mulroy, Quintard Taylor, Lawrence Brooks De Graaf. Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California, University of Washington Press, p. 221 (2001) – ISBN 0-295-98082-6
  11. ^ Rhomberg, Chris. No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland, University of California Press, p. 82, ISBN 0-520-23618-1.
  12. ^ Daniels, Douglas Henry. Pioneer Urbanites: A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco, University of California Press, p. 116 (1991) – ISBN 0-520-07399-1.
  13. ^ The Oakland Sunshine and Western Outlook on microfilm at University of California, Berkeley, Library
  14. ^ Beasley, Colored Race at the Exposition, Oakland Sunshine, June 26, 1915, p. 2
  15. ^ The Negro Trail-Blazers of California (1919), pp. 104–105.
  16. ^ Scanion, Jennifer. American Women Historians, 1700s–1990s: A Biographical Dictionary, Greenwood Press, p. 15–16(1996) – ISBN 0-313-29664-2.
  17. ^ Beasley, The Negro Trail-Blazers, p. 287.
  18. ^ Taylor, Quintard. African American Women Confront the West: 1600–2000, pp. 22–23, (2003) – ISBN 0-8061-3524-7
  19. ^ Dillon, Richard H. Humbugs and Heroes: A Gallery of California Pioneers, James Stevenson Pub. (1983) – ISBN 1-885852-36-3.
  20. ^ Oakland Tribune, Thursday, February 21, 1974, Noted Writers Worked for Tribune, 100 years Centennial Issue, "In 1926 one of the early champions for Negro rights joined The Tribune writing staff. Delilah L. Beasley was already a noted figure with the Bay Area black community."
  21. ^ Oakland Tribune, February 6, 1972, p. 13.
  22. ^ Kevin Mulroy, Quintard Taylor, Lawrence Brooks De Graaf. Seeking El Dorado: African Americans in California, University of Washington Press, p. 216 (2001) – ISBN 0-295-98082-6.
  23. ^ Delilah L. Beasley, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Biennial Convention, National Association of Colored Women Held in Municipal Auditorium Oakland, California, July 29 to August 6, 1926 (reprinted from articles published in the Oakland Tribune)
  24. ^ Ellen Carol DuBois, Vicki Ruíz. Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U.S. Women's History, Routledge, p. 301, (2000) – ISBN 0-415-92516-9
  25. ^ International House: Informal History, at the University of California, Berkeley June 9, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  26. ^ "International House Berkeley: Student Campus Housing - Cultural Programs - Dining, Catering and Event Facilities". ihouse.berkeley.edu.
  27. ^ Streitmatter, Roger. Delilah, Beasley: A Black Woman Journalist Who Lifted As She Climbed, American Journalism Historians Association, October 1991, Philadelphia
  28. ^ Oakland Tribune, August 7, 1932.
  29. ^ Montgomery, Gayle B. One Step from the White House: The Rise and Fall of Senator William F. Knowland, University of California Press, p. 22 (1998) – ISBN 0-520-21194-4
  30. ^ "California Code". Findlaw.
  31. ^ Oakland Tribune, February 12, 1933, p. 42.
  32. ^ Oakland Tribune, February 21, 1974, p. 21.
  33. ^ Gonzales-Day, Ken. Lynching in the West, 1850–1935, Duke University Press, (2006) – ISBN 0-8223-3794-0
  34. ^ Lorraine J. Crouchett. Delilah Leontium, Oakland's Crusading Journalist (1990), p. 54.
  35. ^ "Black journalists' group honors veterans and students". Cincinnati Enquirer. October 20, 2004. p. 30.
  36. ^ *Slavery in California – Online access

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Delilah Leontium Beasley September 9 1867 August 18 1934 was a historian and newspaper columnist for the Oakland Tribune in Oakland California 1 Beasley was the first African American woman to be published regularly in a major metropolitan newspaper 2 3 Beasley was also first to present written proof of the existence of California s black pioneers in her book Slavery in California 1918 and her classic The Negro Trail Blazers of California 1919 Her career in journalism spanned more than 50 years She detailed the racial problems in California and the heroic achievements by Blacks to overcome them during the late 19th century and early 20th century Delilah L BeasleyDelilah L Beasley from a 1919 publicationBornSeptember 9 1867Cincinnati Ohio U S DiedAugust 18 1934San Leandro California U S Occupation s Historian columnist Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Trail Blazers book 1 2 Newspaper columnist 1 3 Community service and social activist 2 Death 3 Legacy 4 Works by Beasley 5 Resources 6 References 7 External linksBiography EditBeasley was born in Cincinnati Ohio the oldest of five children in the family of Daniel Beasley an engineer and Margaret Harris a homemaker 4 After her parents death while she was still a teenager Beasley had to find a full time job to support herself and she pursued a career as a trained masseuse 5 6 She began her newspaper career in 1883 writing for a black newspaper the Cleveland Gazette 7 founded by Harry C Smith 8 She wrote briefly about church and social activities Three years later she published her first column in the Sunday Cincinnati Ohio Enquirer under the headline Mosaics Beasley studied journalism under Daniel Rudd a well known newspaper publisher of the Colored Catholic Tribune in Cincinnati 9 She like Rudd was a devout Catholic In 1910 at age 39 Beasley moved to Oakland California 10 attending lectures and researching at University of California Berkeley and writing essays for presentations at local churches In 1910 the African American population in Oakland was 3 055 11 The small black population supported a flowering of indigenous institutions and community formation in the 10s and 20s Among these institutions were various black owned small businesses churches and private social welfare organizations In addition several black newspapers were published in Oakland including the Oakland Sunshine which began publication in 1902 publisher William Prince and the Western Outlook established in 1894 publishers J S Francis and J L Derrick 12 13 In 1915 she wrote for a black audience in the Oakland Sunshine 14 Trail Blazers book Edit Delilah Beasley chronicled African American firsts and notable achievements in early California in her book The Negro Trail Blazers of California 1919 which is a compilation of records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley found in newspapers from 1848 to the 1890s and most particularly all the black newspapers from the first in 1855 through 1919 Beasley s Trail Blazers book included diaries biographical sketches poetry photographs old papers conversations with old pioneers and a comprehensive history of early legislation and court cases Beasley s informative compilation of records is full of success stories It gives many hundreds of names of blacks in California from the pioneer period to the late 19th century Beasley writes about the black gold miners of the late 1840s A history of the Negro people of California would be incomplete without mention of the mining men who came in 1849 There were at one time several hundred Negro miners working claims on Mormon and Mokelumn Hill at Placerville Grass Valley and elsewhere in California mountains One such man was Moses Rodgers a mining expert and was considered one of the best mining engineers in the state He was also a metallurgist and owned a group of mines at Hornitus The colored miners rarely took a chance in buying mining stock He had more sacred duties to perform with his money He either used it to pay for the freedom or liberty of himself his family or other loved ones in faraway Dixie Land If not that then he contributed largely from his diggings to assisting the Executive Committee of the Colored Convention in their struggles to secure legislative enactments in the interest of the Negro race in California 15 Beasley spent nine years writing her book which is important to historians of California and the West and of African American western history She knew many people who had been in California from the beginning of statehood and before So much of what we know of California black pioneers grows out of her book 16 One of her possible heroes in the book was Lt Col Allen Allensworth in 1908 founder of an all African American town in Allensworth California now a state park Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park Beasley wrote The late Colonel Allensworth was born a slave and yet there are few if any who have made more out of life and done more for their fellow man 17 nbsp Photograph of a woman in the bookDelilah Beasley placed women prominently in her book Over the next four decades no other major works followed Beasley s volume One might expect a plethora of articles and books concerning various aspects of black women s history during and immediately following the civil rights movements of the 1910s Yet western black women received little attention 18 Newspaper columnist Edit Her work on the book The Negro Trail Blazers paved the way for Beasley to become the first Black woman in California to write regularly for a major metropolitan newspaper By 1925 Delilah was writing regularly for the Oakland Tribune whose Sunday column Activities Among Negroes was authored by Beasley She often spent far over forty hours a week collecting material for her column She wrote about churches social events women s clubs literary societies and local as well as national politics Beasley s motivation was to give the white readers of the Oakland Tribune a positive picture of the black community by documenting the achievements of successful black men and women both in Oakland and elsewhere By highlighting such items she served the larger goal of demonstrating the capabilities of African Americans while building a strong constituency for her column and a network of sources from whom she could count on receiving information There is no doubt that in performing this service she laid an important part of the groundwork for the expanded inter racial cooperation that developed during the Depression era of the 1930s Richard Dillon whose book on California Pioneers highlighted special qualities of their unusual and stimulating lives wrote that Beasley was born 50 years before her time 19 Beasley wrote for the Oakland Tribune from 1925 1934 20 Community service and social activist Edit Beasley who never married belonged to many civic organizations including The Delilah L Beasley Literary and Improvement Club National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP northern California branch founded in 1915 headquarters in Oakland She was a member of the Alameda County League of Women Voters the Public Welfare League of Alameda County and the League of Nations Association of the California Federated Women s Club which hosted the biennial convention in the Oakland Auditorium attracting delegates from across the country 21 In 1920 Oakland s black club women including Delilah Beasley and others organized the Linden Center Young Women s Christian Association YWCA to combat the cold reception extended to them by the all white branches in the city The Linden Center YWCA provided an array of services including religious and vocational training adult education counseling services and a full calendar of recreational and cultural programs 22 In the mid 1920s Beasley was a national historian of the National Association of Colored Women NACW 23 and the Alameda County League of Colored Women Voters devoted press coverage to both in her column Activities Among Negroes which ran in the white daily the Oakland Tribune 24 nbsp Oakland Tribune February 12 1933In 1929 Beasley also used her professional skills and prominence in international groups to rebut white fears about the consequences of creating an International House at the University of California Berkeley Many Berkeley landlords protested the construction of the House fearing an influx of foreigners International House at UC Berkeley is a multi cultural residence and program center serving students the local community and alumni worldwide Its mission is to foster intercultural respect understanding lifelong friendships and leadership skills for the promotion of a more tolerant and peaceful world The university wrote More than 800 people gathered in Berkeley to protest racial integration in the proposed International House At that meeting Delilah Beasley a black reporter for the Oakland Tribune passionately defended the concept to a disgruntled and stunned audience And it was Beasley who stood up to the protests of property owners who feared that I House would cause Berkeley to be overrun with Blacks and Asians 25 Notable I House alumni and residents are Delbert E Wong Jerry Brown Oona King Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Rose Bird F Drew Gaffney Eric E Schmidt and Sadako Ogata 26 The weekly column she wrote for the newspaper Activities Among Negroes enhanced her standing in the community because of her ability to generate favorable publicity for black political struggles Recognition of her ability to influence the white community strengthened her status within both white and black communities She confronted misconceptions and contradictions as a newspaper journalist and campaign against the use in the press of explicitly derogatory words when writing about African Americans 27 In 1932 Beasley organized the donation of a painting by a Black artist to the Oakland Museum Due to her efforts as president of the Far Western Inter Racial Committee a painting by Eugene Burk titled The Slave Mother was unveiled and presented to gallery director William Clapp with Beasley expressing hope that the presentation of this picture to the permanent collection of the Oakland Municipal Art may be the means of opening many doors to young aspiring Negroes not only of Oakland but of the United States Clapp responded We feel a very great appreciation of the thought and effort Even under normal conditions the gift would be remarkable since it is the first presented in this gallery as a formal expression of racial culture It is also noteworthy because it is the first work of art that has been presented to the gallery by an organized group of citizens 28 In 1933 it was at Beasley s urging that California State Assemblyman William F Knowland then assistant publisher of the Oakland Tribune and Assemblyman Frederick M Roberts of Los Angeles County introduced an anti lynching bill that passed unanimously in both branches of the California Legislature 29 30 It was the state s first mob violence law 31 32 The majority of lynching in California between 1850 and 1935 were perpetrated against Latinos Native Americans and Asian Americans 33 Death EditDelilah Leontium Beasley died on August 18 1934 at Fairmont Hospital in San Leandro California According to her death certificate the cause of death was arterio sclerotic heart disease with hypertension Her home at that time was listed as being in Oakland California She was laid to rest at Saint Mary Cemetery in Oakland Twenty years later a monument was erected and a perpetual care endowed Carved on the old tombstone is a simple epitaph Author and columnist a native of Ohio and for 25 years a resident of Oakland 34 Legacy EditVeteran and student journalists are honored with the Hall of Fame amp Scholarship Awards of the Cincinnati chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists with the Delilah Leontium Beasley Scholar awards 35 Works by Beasley EditBeasley Delilah L Slavery in California Journal of Negro History vol 3 January 1919 includes California Freedom Papers 1851 1856 36 The Negro Trail Blazers of California 1919 reprinted 1969 1997 amp 2004 ISBN 978 1 885852 40 3 Proceedings of the Fifteenth Biennial Convention National Association of Colored Women Held in Municipal Auditorium Oakland California July 29 to August 6 1926Resources EditBrown Hallie Q Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction 1925 Oxford University Press reprinted 1988 Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 505237 4 Crouchett Lorraine Jacobs Delilah Leontium Beasley Oakland s Crusading Journalist El Cerrito California Downey Place Publishing House 1990 ISBN 0 910823 03 0 Hine Darlene et al Black Women in America An Historical Encyclopedia Carlson Publishing Inc 1994 ISBN 0 926019 61 9 Roses Lorraine E Harlem s Glory Black Women Writing 1900 1950 Harvard University Press 1997 ISBN 0 674 37270 0 Streitmatter Roger Delilah Beasley A Black Woman Journalist Who Lifted As She Climbed American Journalism Historians Association October 1991 Philadelphia Wheeler B Gordon Black California The History of African Americans in the Golden State Hippocrene Books New York 1993 ISBN 0 7818 0074 9References Edit Batker Carol J Reforming Fictions Native African and Jewish American Women s Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era Columbia University Press p 147 2002 ISBN 0 231 11850 3 Traeger James The Women s Chronology Henry Holt amp Company Inc p 345 1994 ISBN 1 85410 390 3 Riley Sam G Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists Greenwood Press p 24 1995 ISBN 0 313 29192 6 Rodger Streitmatter Raising Her Voice African American Women Journalists who Changed History University Press of Kentucky p 74 1994 ISBN 0 8131 0830 6 Appiah Kwame Anthony amp Gates Henry Louis Africana The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience Basic Civitas Books p 207 1999 ISBN 0 465 00071 1 Rebel Girls From Bay Area History Delilah L Beasley Pioneering Journalist KQED March 9 2018 Retrieved February 18 2019 Darlene Clark Hine Black Women in America An Historical Encyclopedia Carlson Pub p 664 1993 ISBN 0 926019 61 9 ohiohistory org The African American Experience in Ohio 1850 1920 Cleveland Gazette dbs ohiohistory org Oakland Tribune February 6 1972 Museum Will Mark Black History Week Kevin Mulroy Quintard Taylor Lawrence Brooks De Graaf Seeking El Dorado African Americans in California University of Washington Press p 221 2001 ISBN 0 295 98082 6 Rhomberg Chris No There There Race Class and Political Community in Oakland University of California Press p 82 ISBN 0 520 23618 1 Daniels Douglas Henry Pioneer Urbanites A Social and Cultural History of Black San Francisco University of California Press p 116 1991 ISBN 0 520 07399 1 The Oakland Sunshine and Western Outlook on microfilm at University of California Berkeley Library Beasley Colored Race at the Exposition Oakland Sunshine June 26 1915 p 2 The Negro Trail Blazers of California 1919 pp 104 105 Scanion Jennifer American Women Historians 1700s 1990s A Biographical Dictionary Greenwood Press p 15 16 1996 ISBN 0 313 29664 2 Beasley The Negro Trail Blazers p 287 Taylor Quintard African American Women Confront the West 1600 2000 pp 22 23 2003 ISBN 0 8061 3524 7 Dillon Richard H Humbugs and Heroes A Gallery of California Pioneers James Stevenson Pub 1983 ISBN 1 885852 36 3 Oakland Tribune Thursday February 21 1974 Noted Writers Worked for Tribune 100 years Centennial Issue In 1926 one of the early champions for Negro rights joined The Tribune writing staff Delilah L Beasley was already a noted figure with the Bay Area black community Oakland Tribune February 6 1972 p 13 Kevin Mulroy Quintard Taylor Lawrence Brooks De Graaf Seeking El Dorado African Americans in California University of Washington Press p 216 2001 ISBN 0 295 98082 6 Delilah L Beasley Proceedings of the Fifteenth Biennial Convention National Association of Colored Women Held in Municipal Auditorium Oakland California July 29 to August 6 1926 reprinted from articles published in the Oakland Tribune Ellen Carol DuBois Vicki Ruiz Unequal Sisters A Multicultural Reader in U S Women s History Routledge p 301 2000 ISBN 0 415 92516 9 International House Informal History at the University of California Berkeley Archived June 9 2007 at the Wayback Machine International House Berkeley Student Campus Housing Cultural Programs Dining Catering and Event Facilities ihouse berkeley edu Streitmatter Roger Delilah Beasley A Black Woman Journalist Who Lifted As She Climbed American Journalism Historians Association October 1991 Philadelphia Oakland Tribune August 7 1932 Montgomery Gayle B One Step from the White House The Rise and Fall of Senator William F Knowland University of California Press p 22 1998 ISBN 0 520 21194 4 California Code Findlaw Oakland Tribune February 12 1933 p 42 Oakland Tribune February 21 1974 p 21 Gonzales Day Ken Lynching in the West 1850 1935 Duke University Press 2006 ISBN 0 8223 3794 0 Lorraine J Crouchett Delilah Leontium Oakland s Crusading Journalist 1990 p 54 Black journalists group honors veterans and students Cincinnati Enquirer October 20 2004 p 30 Slavery in California Online accessExternal links EditWorks by or about Delilah Beasley at Internet Archive Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Delilah Beasley amp oldid 1140790448 Trail Blazers book, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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