Neighborhood History
This is a list of resources relating to the history of the Western Addition neighborhood. Accessibility note: Links are provided to indicate whether a resource is available online, at SFPL, and/or at USF.
Books and Theses
- Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954, by Albert S. Broussard (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993). Available at SFPL and at USF (for USF patrons).
- A Community Lost: Urban Renewal and Displacement in San Francisco’s Western Addition District, by Jordan Klein (Unpublished manuscript, University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Available online.
- Harlem of the West: The San Francisco Fillmore Jazz Era, by Elizabeth Pepin and Lewis Watts (San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2006). Available at SFPL and USF (for USF patrons).
- The Coltrane Church: Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice, by Nicholas Louis Baham III (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015). Available at SFPL and at USF (for USF patrons).
- San Francisco's Fillmore District by Robert F. Oaks (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005). Available at SFPL and at USF (for USF patrons).
- San Francisco's Japantown by the Japantown Task Force, Inc. (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2005). Available at SFPL and at USF (for USF patrons).
- San Francisco Relocated by Diane C. Donovan (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2015). Available at SFPL and at USF (for USF patrons).
- African Americans of San Francisco by Jan Batiste Adkins (Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2012). Available at SFPL and at USF (for USF patrons).
- Nihonmachi: A Story of San Francisco's Japantown, by Suzie Kobuchi Okazaki (San Francisco, CA: SKO Studios, 1985). Available at SFPL and through LinkPlus.
- Sixty-Two Heroes and Pioneers of the Western Addition: Gene E. Suttle, Jr. Plaza (Fillmore and O'Farrell Streets), prepared for San Francisco Redevelopment Agency by San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society in association with National Japanese American Historical Society and Holocaust Center of Northern California. Available at SFPL and Online.