• ... that Gladys Kathleen Parkin (pictured, left) was the first woman in California to obtain a first-class government-issued radio license?
• ... that United States v. Ju Toy was brought to the US Supreme Court when Ju Toy, an American-born person of Chinese ancestry, visited China, then returned to San Francisco, but was denied permission to land and was ordered to be deported by immigration officials?
• ... that Jewish studies professor Marcia Falk (pictured, right) published The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible, a verse translation of the biblical Song of Songs, in 1977?
• ... that the historical novel One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia, chronicles a fictional visit by three sisters to Oakland in 1968, and their encounter with the Black Panther Party?
• ... that Livermore's Carnegie Library started with just 250 books?
December 2014