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Oakland Sunshine

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Oakland Sunshine
Oakland Sunshine, July 1915
Founder(s)John A. Wilds
PublisherJ.M. Bridges
EditorJohn A. Wilds
Founded1897
Ceased publication1922
Headquarters855 Broadway,
Oakland, California, U.S.
ISSN2995-6498
OCLC number10384635

Oakland Sunshine (1897–1922) was an early African American newspaper in Oakland, California, U.S..[1][2]

The Oakland Sunshine newspaper was founded and edited by John A. Wilds (1845–1921).[2] It was located at 855 Broadway in Downtown Oakland;[3][4] and published weekly by J.M. Bridges,[1][5] and sometimes the Tilghman Press.[6] Delilah Beasley wrote a column for the newspaper in 1915.[7]

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  1. ^ a b "Oakland Sunshine (Oakland, Calif.) 189?-19??". Library of Congress. Retrieved July 9, 2025.
  2. ^ a b "The Oakland Sunshine News is Published". African American Registry (AAREG). Retrieved July 9, 2025.
  3. ^ San Francisco-Oakland Directory. 1907. p. 366.
  4. ^ Junne, George H. (May 30, 2000). Blacks in the American West and Beyond--America, Canada, and Mexico: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-313-06505-7.
  5. ^ Danky, James Philip; Hady, Maureen E.; Graham, Mark (1998). African-American Newspapers and Periodicals: a National Bibliography. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 436. ISBN 978-0-674-00788-8 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ Dahl, Bill (November 1, 2016). The Art of the Blues: A Visual Treasury of Black Music's Golden Age. University of Chicago Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0-226-39669-9.
  7. ^ Beasley, Deliah, Colored Race at the Exposition, Oakland Sunshine, June 26, 1915, p. 2