The Negro trail blazers of California [microform] : a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California ... . s law whenits passage would put his sister out of employment, he replied that the advancement ofthe whole of his people was of more importance than the position of one, and that hissister would be benefited by the change by reason of her great pedagogic ability, andhe foresaw aright, for immediately after the schools were
The Negro trail blazers of California [microform] : a compilation of records from the California archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley; and from the diaries, old papers, and conversations of old pioneers in the State of California ... . s law whenits passage would put his sister out of employment, he replied that the advancement ofthe whole of his people was of more importance than the position of one, and that hissister would be benefited by the change by reason of her great pedagogic ability, andhe foresaw aright, for immediately after the schools were mixed his sister was madeprincipal of one of the finest grammar schools in Sacramento. One of the proudest moments in the life of Captain Jones was when he waselected captain of the Brannan Guards, a soldier company composed of colored mennamed after and financed by Sam Brannan, a man who had always shown the greatestconcern for the welfare of the colored people of San Francisco. It was while he wascaptain of this company that the first celebration of the emancipation was held in SanFrancisco. With John A. Morgan he helped to organize the Morgan Cadets, and hehad the pleasure of seeing his eldest son rise to the captaincy of that company of boys. OP^ CALIIoiiXIA 286A. LIEUT. JOURXEE WHITE367th Infantry (the Buffalos), 02nd Division, National Army, Worlds War. 286B THE NEGRO TRAIL BLAZERS
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