Reverend Jeremiah B. Sanderson, circa 1860

Item Overview

Title

Reverend Jeremiah B. Sanderson, circa 1860

Alternative title

Early California African American pioneers

Date Created

[circa 1860]

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Jeremiah B. Sanderson, a free, New Bedford-educated black man who was active in the abolitionist movement in the Northeast, moved to California during the Gold Rush era and became one of the most influential spokesmen and educators in the state. He successfully petitioned to get public funding for "colored schools" in the 1850s-1870s in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Stockton, with black families from across the state sending their children to his school in Stockton. Sanderson was also a key organizer of state and district conventions during that time period that called for greater civil rights for blacks in California. He was a minister of the First A.M.E. Church in Oakland.
Photomechanical print of a photograph of Jeremiah B. Sanderson, standing beside a balustrade.

Caption

Written on back of photo: Courtesy Oakland East Bay Negro Historical Society

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

photomechanical prints

Names

Sanderson, J. B., -1875

Subject Geographic

Oakland (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Abolitionists