Notes Urania Cummings

I am writing a Wikipedia article for Urania Cummings. She is an artist who started painting at 65. After raising her children.

She became well-known in the San Francisco Bay area.

When writing Wikipedia articles there is so much information I find that I can't add to the article.

Writing Wikipedia articles stir my imagination with thoughts and ideas that I won't be able to use. Some information will not have references.

I found an online interview with Urania Cummings. She talked about her social life in San Francisco before she got married.

She mentions the formal cosmos debutante balls.

She talked about how beautiful San Francisco was, and the exquisite social events held at fancy ball rooms. She talks about courtship and social events that were by invitation.

These were events when radio was in its early stages, and television wasn't developed yet. Urania talked about events and meetings she went to with her husband. One in particular was Marcus Garvey meetings.

She mentions that many events were held in homes. So different from today.

What I find fascinating was that African Americans and Caribbeans lived in San Francisco during its early days before the 1906 earthquake.

Rare, have I heard anything about African Americans who in lived in California during the Gold Rush days. They built churches, businesses, started newspapers, and created social and cultural organizations.

Early San Francisco black pioneers faced discriminary laws; one being testifying against a white citizen. Limited work options, "colored schools " .

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