Jan Batiste Adkins highlights the seemingly unknown story of the African-American experience in the Bay Area, specifically San Francisco, in the book, \u201cImages of America: African Americans of San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n
Originally starting out as a thesis for her master’s at San Jose State University, Adkins expanded her project into making this book, which makes it a little more personal than some of the other books in the \u201cImage of America\u201d book series.<\/p>\n
The book is mainly a history book and features the wide array of research Adkins had done.<\/p>\n
She presents it in a simple and stunning design with 126 pages of pictures and facts.<\/p>\n
At $21.99, it would be recommended for those who especially want to know about the history of the African-American and Californian culture.<\/p>\n
In her introduction, Adkins wrote, \u201cThe aim for this book is to inspire conversation about the efforts of the early pioneers and 20th-century leaders who envisioned new lives in the west.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those early pioneers she included in the book were African-Americans that included ex-slaves escaping the south, activists fighting for equality during the civil rights movement, schoolteachers, reverends and politicians, most of whose story, up until now, have unfortunately never been told.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jan Batiste Adkins highlights the seemingly unknown story of the African-American experience in the Bay Area, specifically San Francisco, in the book, \u201cImages of America: African Americans of San Francisco.\u201d Originally starting out as a thesis for her master’s at San Jose State University, Adkins expanded her project into making this book, which makes it…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"staff_name":[601],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","staff_name-jerica-lowman"],"yoast_head":"\n