Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. She was one of the richest and most powerful people in California, and she was a black woman. Known as the “mother of civil rights in California”, one of San Francisco’s most notorious madams, a savior of the downtrodden, an exploiter of the wealthy and the “Queen of Voodoo”, while breaking racial taboos she played a remarkable role in the early years of San Francisco, and I want you to know her name.

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The Making of Mammy Pleasant by Lynn Hudson

Mary Ellen Pleasant: Unsung Heroine” by Steve Crowe in Crisis, Jan-Feb 1999]

NY Times Overlooked

The Paris Review

Found SF

SF Museum

MEPleasant.com

Don‘t Call Her Mammy

KQED How a Heroine became a demon in victorian SF

Face 2 Face Africa

KALW SF Public Radio

Meet Mary Pleasant - film

Nantucket Historical Association

America Comes Alive!

Encyclopedia - Mary Ellen Pleasant

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