San Francisco is rich in civil rights history – but you may have walked past certain street corners many times and not realized that battles were fought there for labor rights, lesbian and gay equality, freedom of expression, disability rights and more. Join Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, coauthors of Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California takes us on a virtual tour that uncovers San Francisco’s hidden history – from the Yick Wo Laundry, whose owner challenged anti-Chinese laws, to the Votes for Women Club where working women organized their victorious campaign for suffrage, to the site of a police raid on a lesbian and gay New Year’s Eve gala that predated Stonewall.
Related exhibit: Wherever There's a Fight: A History of Civil Liberties in California, Feburary 10 - April 7, 2013, San Francisco History Center.
Related Exhibitions and Events
- Woman King
- Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic B - Peony poetry reading and book talk
- Saturday, June 8, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B - Islands of the Bay
- Saturday, June 8, 2013
Visitacion Valley - Bay Area Authors Speak Out
- Sunday, June 9, 2013
Main Library, Koret Auditorium - An Insider’s Guide to San Francisco’s Chinatown
- Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunset - Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
- Thursday, June 20, 2013
Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Rms A & B
