Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. She was one of the richest and most powerful people in California, and she was a black woman. Known as the “mother of civil rights in California”, one of San Francisco’s most notorious madams, a savior of the downtrodden, an exploiter of the wealthy and the “Queen of Voodoo”, while breaking racial taboos she played a remarkable role in the early years of San Francisco, and I want you to know her name.
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Sources:
The Making of Mammy Pleasant by Lynn Hudson
Mary Ellen Pleasant: Unsung Heroine” by Steve Crowe in Crisis, Jan-Feb 1999]
NY Times Overlooked
The Paris Review
Found SF
SF Museum
MEPleasant.com
Don‘t Call Her Mammy
KQED How a Heroine became a demon in victorian SF
Face 2 Face Africa
KALW SF Public Radio
Meet Mary Pleasant - film
Nantucket Historical Association
America Comes Alive!
Encyclopedia - Mary Ellen Pleasant
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