John Grider's Century: African Americans in Solano, Napa, and Sonoma Counties from 1845 to 1925 Gregg Stephens The general public is typically

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John Grider's Century: African Americans in Solano, Napa, and Sonoma Counties from 1845 to 1925 Gregg Stephens The general public is typicallySharon McGriff Payne has spent the past three years of this first decade of the 21st Century mesmerized by African Americans from the 19th Century, especially the insistent voice of John Grider. Grider captured McGriff Payne's imagination and guided her to mine largely neglected archives to unearth and compile the stories of African Americans in California's North Bay counties of Solano, Napa, and Sonoma from the 1840s through the 1920s. Grider, a