This organizing and resistance in the Central Valley Timeline across more than two and a half centuries includes roughly 150 verified entries spanning eight eras and eleven lineage threads, from sovereign Valley nations through farmworker power, the prison and immigration detention abolition movement, and the present.
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Timelines of Organizing Lineages
Collective memory made visible: Interactive timelines tracing the lineages of organizing across California’s regions and movements.
This timeline of organizing and resistance in San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial counties includes 124 source-documented entries spanning ten eras and twelve organizing lineages, from sovereign desert and mountain nations through farmworker and warehouse worker power, borderlands struggle, and the fights over prisons and immigration detention, to the present.
View timelineThe Black freedom struggle in the Central Valley traced from Allensworth’s self-governing community and the water wars through the prison abolition movement, and from the roots of Black August in the Central Valley to the present.
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