Mary Ellen Pleasant & the Executive Committee. San Francisco’s “Executive Committee” was a group of educated Black elite: ministers, teachers, business owners from across California who came together and consolidated power through the California Colored Convention in 1855.
San Francisco's Black newspapers, Civil War era
San Francisco's Black newspapers, Civil War…
San Francisco's Black newspapers, Civil War era
Mary Ellen Pleasant & the Executive Committee. San Francisco’s “Executive Committee” was a group of educated Black elite: ministers, teachers, business owners from across California who came together and consolidated power through the California Colored Convention in 1855.