Rhiannon Pinson

Eldridge Cleaver imprisoned by 22 for assault influenced by Malcolm X while in prison, drawn to violent nature of the Black Panther party as it merged black socialism with nationalism 1968 Soul on Ice - NY Times book of the year lived in exile, returned to US and wrote Soul on Fire members of Black Panther party often targeted by police "justifiable homicide" involved in a shootout in Oakland where a police officer was wounded and 17 year old Bobby Hutton was killed, picked up on parole and revoked

Dreams and Awakenings Carmel “el puerto perdido” the lost coast by Sebastian Vizcaino 1603 Robinson Jeffers-beginning of California literature “Frank Norris saw the wheat and the octopus as complex metaphors for the struggles transforming California into a Darwinian new world” 394 “Saw physical California and he geographic Wedt as the last site for American dreams of eternal renewal and progress” 394 As early as the Civil War Northern and Southern California has become opposites; northern primarily Democratic, pro labor, and Catholic, Southern mostly Republican and pro business, and Protestant  Los Angelas considered by some to be fake and full of people looking to make quick money or perfect for cults  Socially and economically devastated by The Great Depression until the mobilization of WWII John Steinbeck became an international figure for The Graoes of Wrath also won him a Nobel peace prize 25 years later

Gertrude Atherton 1857-1948 Wrote 50 books between 1888 and 1946 18 volume chronicle of Northern California life from 1840 to WWII best works were novels hat captured privileged and middle class life in SF in 1890-1910 San Francisco "a fool's paradise' The Californians ch 6 "It was the first time she had seen poverty; she had barely heard of its existence; it had never occurred to her that great romanticists condescended to borrow from life."  314 "Even in that awful moment, it was her father she feared, not the law" 315 "The sergeant recognized the great I AM of the American maiden; he also recognized her social altitude." "She hated her father and she hated life with an intensity which added to her misery, and she decided that she had made her last confession to any one but the priest, who always forgave her," 320 Edith Maud Eaton "Sui Sin Far" 1865-1914 1890-1914 articles and stories in national magazi...

Maria Amparo Ruiz De Burton 1832-1894 Met Henry Burton of US Army in July 1847 As  a condition of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hiladgo in 1848, 480 Baja Californians were shipped off to Monterey 16 year old Maria and her mother 1849 married Burton Burton contracted malaria in the Civil War and died in 1869 Maria wrote "Who Would Have Thought It" in 1872 parody historical romance The Squatter and the Don 1885 was the first novel by a Mexican American woman - expose of the common practice of land "squatting" Squatter's Sovereignty on the wane and the squatter vote was no longer in power William Darrel believed land belonged to the US and wanted to take it back cattle killed or stolen, laws do not protect original owner state legislators make laws to protect agriculture but not cattle "land commission" established to examine land titles during litigation, rightful owners paid taxes on land being cultivated while the titles were in court