Author’s Blog

Those Hathaway Women

Left to right: Susan, Martha, Margaret, Mary seated. Who

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Seeking Racial Harmony: The 1950s

No Blacks in My Neighborhood      Racial tensions seized the

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Early Long Beach African Americans: George W. Hawkins

            In researching a new book on African Americans in

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From Slave to Soldier to Long Beach

When African American Harry Stubblefield (1842 -1/23/1913) passed away in

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1919

News stories from the local press 1919 There was tremendous

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The Ghost of Belmont Heights

                In my

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Urban Legends

             In my last commentary

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Do You Believe in Ghosts?

                   Do

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Long Beach Men Going Bald

            The stock market of 2018 is soaring and diving

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Long Beach Public Library History

Beginnings            The history of Long

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