Sharon McGriff-Payne has spent the past three years of this first
decade of the 21st Century mesmerized by African Americans from the
19th Century, especially the insistent voice of John Grider. Grider
captured McGriff-Payne's imagination and guided her to mine largely
neglected archives to unearth and compile the stories of African
Americans in California's North Bay counties of Solano, Napa, and
Sonoma from the 1840s through the 1920s.
Grider, a former slave, Bear Flag veteran, and hardworking
everyman has inspired McGriff-Payne's research. The indomitable
Miss Delilah L. Beasley has also inspired the author. Her 1919
book, The Negro Trail Blazers of California, preserved the names
and deeds of many of the North Bay's African American pioneers.
John Grider's Century seeks to add those black voices to
California's larger historical narrative, with the message, "We
were here "
"Tell my story," Grider prompted. McGriff-Payne has attempted
to fulfill that command and dedicates this volume to him and the
other pioneers who founded schools, formed churches and civic
organizations, advocated policy, built businesses, raised families
and triumphed over daunting odds.
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