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How many of the thousands of people who will visit Yosemite National Park this summer know that Monroe Meadows there is named for a black man? George Monroe, the son of an early black miner, was one of the West's great stage drivers and because of his skill and reknown, he was chosen to drive President Ulysses S. Grant along the treacherous "S" curves of the Wawona Trail into Yosemite Valley in 1879.
This fact and others about the activities of black Americans in the Western United States will be a part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Special Collection just established in the San Francisco Public Library, Henry Bowles, president of the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, announced recently.
Launched with grants from a number of foundations and private donors, the first step in the long-range plan is the compilation of an annotated bibliography. The bibliography will locate for the first time in one volume catalogued...
