Virtual Liberties Tour of San Francisco | SoMa

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Wherever There’s a Fight is a ShapingSF virtual civil liberties tour of San Francisco.

You will see historic and contemporary images of places you may have walked by every day, without realizing the civil liberties battles that were fought there:

• The site where vigilantes hanged their opponents from makeshift gallows,
• Tthe murals that Richard Nixon tried to censor
• A bold African American woman who refused to give up her seat on a streetcar, almost a century before Rosa Parks
• The Chinese laundry owner who fought discriminatory laws up to the U.S. Supreme Court
• The man who defied President Roosevelt’s incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

About the Speakers: Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi

They are the authors of Wherever There’s a Fight – How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California, (winner of the 2010 Gold Medal in Californiana from the California Book Awards).

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