With Susan D. Anderson

When: Thursday, March 20th, 2025 at 7:00 PM.

Where: The Sierra Presbyterian Church located at 175 Ridge Road, Nevada City.

During the Gold Rush and continuing through today, Californians have been part and parcel of rural areas. While it is widely recognized that many Black people who migrated to California moved into booming cities, African Americans are not strangers to rural California. Rural Black residents opened schools, worked the land, and exercised vigilance about the equal rights of citizens. Over successive migrations in the 19th-and 20th-centuries, generations settled in agricultural and rural areas from as far north as Siskiyou County, here in Nevada County, to the Central Valley and the Imperial Valley in the South.

Please join us for a lively evening with Susan D. Anderson, History Curator and Program Manager at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. Susan is an accomplished and highly respected public historian of the African American history of California and the West, whose research culminated in the creation of the exhibit We Are Not Strangers Here: African American Histories in Rural California. Now on display at the Rood Center, and open through April 18th, the exhibit is sponsored by the Nevada County Arts Council’s Art in Public Spaces Program in partnership with the Nevada County Historical Society, Nevada County and through a generous gift from Floyd and Judy Sam.

Admission: FREE and open to the public, this event lasts one hour. Free refreshments offered after the presentation. For more information, call or text Daniel Ketcham at (530) 477-8056