Delilah Beasley
AMERICAN HISTORIAN (1871-1934)
Delilah Leontium Beasley; Delilah Isontium Beasley; Delilah L. Beasley; The Negro Trail-Blazers of California
Delilah Leontium Beasley (September 9, 1867 – August 18, 1934), was a historian and newspaper columnist for the Oakland Tribune in Oakland, California.Batker, Carol J. Reforming Fictions: Native, African, and Jewish American Women's Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era, Columbia University Press, p. 147 (2002) – . Beasley was the first African-American woman to be published regularly in a major metropolitan newspaper.Traeger, James. The Women's Chronology, Henry Holt & Company, Inc, p. 345 (1994) – Riley, Sam G. Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists, Greenwood Press, p. 24 (1995) – . Beasley was also first to present written proof of the existence of California's black pioneers in her book Slavery in California (1918) and her classic, The Negro Trail-Blazers of California (1919). Her career in journalism spanned more than 50 years. She detailed the racial problems in California and the heroic achievements by Blacks to overcome them during the late 19th century and early