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Renowned Oakland architect to design a memorial for Piedmont’s first Black resident

In May of 1924, the same year an equestrian statue depicting Confederate general Robert E. Lee on a horse was dedicated in Charlottesville, Virginia, a mob of 500 angry white people massed outside the home of the only Black resident in the East Bay city of Piedmont.   What happened next is the story behind a […]

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