Letter from the Editor

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Editorial| November 01 2022 Letter from the Editor Mary Ann Irwin Mary Ann Irwin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar California History (2022) 99 (4): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mary Ann Irwin; Letter from the Editor. California History 1 November 2022; 99 (4): 1–2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2022.99.4.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search In 1996, California History published its first special issue on the history of African Americans in the state, presented by consulting editor Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. In her introduction to the issue, she wrote that her goal was to examine “the nature, scope, and significance of the African American presence in California.” To her, “the African Americans who helped shape California’s history were not passive, helpless victims, but active, determined men and women” who insisted on and achieved “self-determination and self-definition in California.” The current issue, long overdue, offers another glimpse into the history of Black California. We release this issue in a moment of profound reckoning on racial injustice broadly, from police violence to institutionalized poverty to the free-form bigotry that is still alive and well in America. Surveying these articles, we see that themes present in Wilson’s issue remain open wounds in California and the nation. Severe inequality... You do not currently have access to this content.