Jelly Roll Morton, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Melvyn van Peebles, Alvin Ailey and Alex Haley all called San Francisco, the City That Created Cool, home. SFSoul Shuttle presents a unique look into their lives here along with many other global notables during the Celebrity Landmarks tour Saturday, Jan. 10 at 10:45 a.m. beginning from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Waterfall in Yerba Buena Gardens. https://m.youtube/watch?v=_h9uUfFk2P4 The most important event in African American history went through San Franciscos Underground Railroad in the 1850s. Oxford University Press historian John William Templeton unwraps the veil from this revelatory heritage. Experience the vitality of five organizations founded in 1852 which changed the face of history and still make an impact today on the Grace & Gospel tour Sunday, Jan. 11 starting at 8:45 from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Waterfall. Registration at the sfsoul shuttle tab at californiablackhistory, which is also the exclusive source for Our Roots Run Deep: the Black Experience in California, Vols. 1-4 and plan for our fifth annual seven week class Come to the Water: Teaching California Black History beginning Jan. 29 at the Koret Auditorium and the exhibition The San Francisco Renaissance at the African American Art & Culture Complex.
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