Elaine Elinson

Archy Lee: Fleeing from Slavery in a Free State

Oakland Post
The same year the United States Supreme Court issued its infamous Dred Scott decision, an 18-year-old black man named Archy Lee made a very different kind of history in California. His bid for freedom had the support of black pioneers in Sacramento and the Bay Area, the Colored Convention, and famed entrepreneur Mary Ellen Pleasant.

Selected Works

Articles
San Francisco's Own Rosa Parks
Charlotte Brown defied a color bar on San Francisco street cars while the Civil War was still raging.
"A lesson in American history riding the 14 Mission bus"
What a ride on the city bus can tell you about your fellow passengers – and yourself.
"Soup, salad, suffrage: How women won their right to vote in California"
Untold history of working women’s efforts to secure the vote in San Francisco.
Nonfiction
Wherever There's a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California
Winner, Gold Medal, 2010 California Book Awards
Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines
Expose of how U.S. investment in the Philippines bolstered the oligarchy and oppressed the poor.

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