In 2020, California's legislature did something no state has ever done. It created a task force to look at the legacy ... named for the agency set up after the Civil War to help formerly enslaved ...

There’s certainly lots of prejudice, but they did immediately count as white, and I believe that was mostly the case in the North as well, before the Civil War ... way, like, “Look at what ...

a former Cal and Stanford history professor and author of “Golden State in the Civil War.” “Mostly what California did for the Union was send money.” And, she says, historical sites from ...