From humble beginnings, Delilah Beasley studied and worked her way through life.\u00a0 She was the oldest of five and orphaned when she was just a teenager.\u00a0 She started writing for the Cleveland Gazette in 1883.\u00a0 Delilah arrived in California in 1910 from her birthplace Ohio.\u00a0 She studied and did research at the University of California, Berkeley.\u00a0 She wrote essays which were presented at local churches.\u00a0 The result of her research was the book \u201cThe Negro Trail Blazers of California\u201d which documented the contributions of African Americans to the early days of California and established Delilah as an important historian of black history.\u00a0 She became the first black woman to be published regularly in a major newspaper with a weekly column entitled \u201cActivities Among Negroes\u201d first published in the Oakland Tribune in 1923 until her death in 1934.<\/p>\n
Delilah Beasley is important because of her impact on the world around her at that time.\u00a0 She caused fellow newspaper writers to cease the practice of using derogatory terms to refer to black people in the print media.\u00a0 She lobbied two fellow Republican California State Assemblymen, William F. Knowland and Frederick M. Roberts to introduce the first anti-lynching law that was passed unanimously by both houses.\u00a0 Delilah campaigned vigorously for the establishment of the multicultural International House at the University of California, Berkeley standing up to the landlords and the surrounding community which were concerned with the area being overrun by blacks and asians. \u00a0She used her work as a journalist to promote the achievements of successful black men and women and establish the foundation for expanded interracial integration during the Depression era of the 1930s. In 1932, Delilah Beasley organized the donation of a painting by a black artist to the Oakland Municipal Art Museum\u2019s permanent collection.<\/p>\n
Delilah Beasley was an activist who used her influence to create positive change in the relationship between the races and society at large.\u00a0 Delilah was a Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From humble beginnings, Delilah Beasley studied and worked her way through life.\u00a0 She was the oldest of five and orphaned when she was just a teenager.\u00a0 She started writing for the Cleveland Gazette in 1883.\u00a0 Delilah arrived in California in 1910 from her birthplace Ohio.\u00a0 She studied and did research at the University of California,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n