Black migrants who left their homes in the Deep South during World War II to build Liberty Ships by the San Francisco Bay speak of their experiences as early settlers in Marin City, California.
Marilyn L. Geary is an oral historian and author specializing in immigration studies. Her first oral histories were of Sicilian fishermen on San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Marilyn's works include Marin Mind/Scapes: Stories of Art, Wellness and Nature, The Madonna del Lume/Blessing of the Fishing Fleet, and Marin City Memories, which recounts the experiences of Black workers who migrated to the Sausalito shipyards during World War II. Her latest book, Miners, Milkers and Merchants: from the Swiss-Italian Alps to the Golden Hills of Australia and California, recounts the lives of three brothers who emigrate from Ticino in the mid-nineteenth century.
