On Saturday, we had a great turnout for the 3rd annual Women’s History walk, with more than 50 people of all ages turning out to learn about some of the remarkable women in Oakland’s history. As Annalee Allen and I warned at the start, there are too many notable women to talk about, but we covered as many as we could with as much information as we could.

A map of our route and some of the other points of interest is here, and more photos from the walk can be viewed here. The places we stopped and the women we talked about are listed below. Note that most of these are links to oaklandwiki.org where you find more information and images about the person or place.

Camron-Stanford House

• Ebell Society
• Oakland Women’s Rowing Club
• Alice Marsh (Camron)

Main Library + Playgrounds

• Ina Coobrith
• Ethel Moore

Alice St. Mural + Oakland Women’s City Club (1927)

• Ruth Beckford
• Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee + Emma Hoo Tom
• Destiny Muhammad
• Jerri Lange
• Jean Quan
• woman with grandchild — Hotel Oakland resident
• 1882 — Chinese Exclusion Act (not repealed until 1943)

Hotel Oakland (1912)

• Children’s Hospital – Miss Mabel Weed and Bertha Wright

Oakland Business and Professional Women’s Club

• Gladys Barndollar (also a founder of Soroptomist Club, supported Fenton Home Orphanage)

YWCA

• Julia Morgan
• Jewish Cultural Experience mural (down Franklin St.)

Kahn’s Department Store

• 1946 General Strike

City Hall and Jack London Oak

• Wilhelmin Yoakum
• Charmian London
• Eliza London Shepard

14th and Clay

• Isadora Duncan
• Lillian Remillard
• AAMLO
• First Unitarian Church
• Preservation Park

City Center

• Gertrude Stein
• “There!” sculpture
• Millicent Kittredge Blake
• Ida Louise Jackson

Tribune Tower

• Delilah Beasley
• Mollie Conners

Joyce Gordon Gallery

• Joyce Gordon