Guide to the Flood Family Papers

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Guide to the Flood Family Papers

circa 1850s-1963

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z039hs/

The Flood family was one of the earliest and most prominent African American families to settle in Oakland, California. The Flood Family Papers includes 18 photographs, Lydia Flood Jackson’s funeral program, and two letters written by Lydia Flood Jackson to Ruth Lasartemay.

.1 linear feet (2 folders)

eng, Latn

Oakland Public Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11617709

Oakland Public Library

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Jackson, Lydia Flood, 1862-1963

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Lydia Flood Jackson (b. June 6, 1862, Oakland, CA–d. July 8, 1963, Oakland, CA) was the daughter of Elizabeth Thorn Scott and Isaac Flood. Her mother opened the first school for black children in Sacramento, CA (1854) and Oakland, CA (1857). Her father Isaac Flood, was born as a slave in South Carolina and active in the California Colored Convention Movement to fight segregation in California schools. Lydia was the first black student to attend John Swett School in Oakland. Her family was one of...