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Harold “Slim” Jenkins was an African American entrepreneur and owner of the renowned Slim Jenkins Supper Club on 7th Street in West Oakland.

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Celebrating Black History in Oakland.
OPD - First Black Recruit.
In 1970, Saundra Brown was the first black woman accepted into the Oakland Police Department’s Recruits Academy.
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𝓒𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓑𝓵𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓗𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝓲𝓷 𝓞𝓪𝓴𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓭
Tanya Dennis was crowned Miss Oakland in 1968, becoming the first African-American to wear the crown. She then became one of the early African Americans to compete for the title of Miss California.
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Celebrating Black History in Oakland
Oakland's first black city councilman, Joshua Rose, served on the Oakland City Council, representing District 2 from 1965 to 1977..
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Black History in Oakland
The Black Y’s of Oakland
The Linden Branch Y.W.C.A. and the Filbert Street Y.M.C.A. developed programs during the 1930s that helped the Black community survive the Depression years.
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Black History in Oakland

Phillip Richard Springer (1874-1952) was the first Black man in Oakland to own a taxicab.
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By 1915, Springer’s Cab Company was well-established.

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In 1892, a group of prominent African American women from Oakland, California, formed the Old People’s Home Association (OPHA). Its purpose was to establish and sustain a home for the aged and infirm colored people. abitofhistory.site/2024/12/08/b...