SITE OF THE 1946 GENERAL STRIKE WHEN WOMAN RETAIL CLERKS FOUGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE A UNION ALAMEDA LABOR COUNCIL AFL-CIO Submitted by: Sarah Fine @fineplanner
DEDICATED TO AMERICAN HEROS OF ALL WARS BY OAKLAND DETACHMENT MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ARMISTICE DAY 1935
CROSSROADS Latham Square is actually a triangle, an accidental space created by the meeting of new and old roads. Broadway did not extend above 14th Street until the late 1880s, when it was...
GENERAL STRIKE! In December 1946, management refusal to recognize a union of retail clerks in stores adjacent to Latham Square led to a general strike involving 100,000 workers in Alameda County....
OAKLAND CITY HALL Begun in 1911 and completed in 1914, this is Oakland’s fifth City Hall. Its construc-tion was funded with a $1.15 million bond issue passed in 1909. The Beaux Arts design was...
ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES H. LATHAM AND HENRIETTA MARSHALL LATHAM AS A TRIBUTE TO THEIR HUMANITY PRESENTED TO THIS CITY OF WHICH THEY WERE EARLIEST RESIDENTS BY THEIR CHILDREN UNDER THE...
IN LASTING MEMORY OFJOHN B WILLIAMS, 1917 - 1976, A MAN OF VISION, COMPASSION AND COURAGE. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE OAKLAND REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY1964 - 1976DEDICATED BY HIS COL-LEAGUES WHO ELECTED...
Site of College of California Original Campus of University of California University of California, Chartered March 23, 1863. Located between Franklin and Harrison, 12th and 14th Streets, from...