Bayview–Hunters Point, San Francisco

In 1994, the San Francisco Energy Company proposed building another power plant in the neighborhood, but community activists protested and pushed to have the current facility shut down.[14] In 2008, Pacific Gas and Electric Company demolished the Hunters Point Power Plant and began a two-year remediation project to restore the land for residential development.The Health Department came in and burned the shacks and docks that once provided a small village of fishermen and their families a steady living in the abundant shrimp harvest from the San Francisco Bay.The Hunters Point Dry Docks were greatly expanded by Union Iron Works and Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation and were capable of housing the largest ships that could pass through the locks of the Panama Canal.The USS Indianapolis left Hunters Point at 6:30 am on July 16, 1945, but was not allowed to leave San Francisco's harbor until 8:30 am, after the first atomic weapon test "Trinity" (5:29 am) had been confirmed successful in the New Mexico desert.Two redlining reports from this time characterize the residential makeup of the area as lower-income: that is, residents were either "white collar" workers or factory laborers who had jobs in the vicinity.[32] In 1967 US Senators Robert F. Kennedy, George Murphy and Joseph S. Clark visited the Western Addition and Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhoods accompanied by future mayor Willie Brown to speak to activist Ruth Williams about the inequalities occurring in the Bayview.Many long-time African American residents, whether they could no longer afford to live there or sought to take advantage of their homes' soaring values, left what they perceived as an unsafe neighborhood and made an exodus to the Bay Area's outer suburbs.He derided African Americans for wearing saggy pants, speaking improper English and giving children names "like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed and all that crap.""[40] In 2017, mentorship nonprofit Friends of the Children received a four-year $1.2 million grant from the Social Innovation Fund, which will allow the national program to expand into San Francisco's Bayview and Hunters Point neighborhoods.Of Bayview's population, 24.9% was of Hispanic or Latino origin, of any race (11.5% Mexican, 4.2% Salvadoran, 2.6% Guatemalan, 1.4% Honduran, 1.4% Nicaraguan, 0.7% Puerto Rican, 0.2% Peruvian, 0.2% Spanish, 0.2% Spaniard, 0.1% Colombian, 0.1% Cuban, 0.1% Panamanian).[42] According to the 2010 U.S. Census, Bayview–Hunters Point had the highest percentage of African-Americans among San Francisco neighborhoods, home to 21.5% of the city's Black population, and they were the predominant ethnic group in the Bayview.Place-based and asset-based community building programs networked through the Quesada Gardens Initiative began in 2002 adding direct grassroots public participation to the social and environmental change landscape with a goal of preserving diversity and encouraging longterm residents to reinvest in their neighborhood.[46] These adverse health effects coupled with rising housing costs contribute to what one community member and organizer has characterized as behavior "meeting the UN standard definition of genocide".[66][67] District 10 supervisor Shamann Walton supports the idea, stating it would provide residents with unprecedented healthy choices, and that he's hopeful The City will get behind any deal struck between the current owners of the vacant space and the Human Services Agency.[68] In April 1968, baseball icon, hall-of-fame inductee, and San Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays and Osceola Washington campaigned for "Blacks and Whites Together Fund Drive for Youth Activities this Summer."[69] A number of community groups, such as the India Basin Neighborhood Association,[70] the Quesada Gardens Initiative,[71] Literacy for Environmental Justice,[72] the Bayview Merchants' Association,[73] the Bayview Footprints Collaboration of Community-Building Groups,[74] and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice[75] work with community members, other organizations and citywide agencies to strengthen, improve, and fight for the protection of this diverse part of San Francisco.In 1969, a red brick building was built on the corner of 3rd Street and Revere Avenue in the Bayview-Hunters Point district with a bequest from Anna E. Waden, a clerical employee of the City of San Francisco.Criticism of the project focused on the large-scale toxic clean-up of the industrial superfund site, environmental impact of waterfront construction, displacement of an impoverished neighborhood populace and a required build-up to solve transportation needs.[95] Former San Francisco Supervisor Malia Cohen, who represented the Bayview, was researching health disparities in birth outcomes for black women after conversations she had with her younger sister and one of her legislative aides, both of whom were pregnant at the time.Cohen's research led her to SisterWeb, which aims to train black, Pacific Islander and Spanish-speaking doulas before matching them with women in their respective communities in San Francisco.Over the 10-year period, participating artists included: Rene Yung, Susan Hersey, Tony Calkins, William Pattengill, Topher Delany, Jessica Bodner, Jack Freeman, and many others.[100] The city commissioned a Malcolm X mural on the Kirkwood Star Market, painted by artist Refa-1 in 1997[101] and the murals painted on Joseph Lee Recreational Center by artist Dewey Crumpler titled "The Fire Next Time" (presumably after the James Baldwin book of the same name) in 1984 of Harriet Tubman, Paul Robeson, two Senufo birds which in African culture oversee the lives and creativity of the community, King Tut, Muhammed Ali, Willie Mays, Wilma Rudolph and Arthur Ashe.In 1968, actor Steve McQueen and mayor Joseph Alioto attended the ceremonial groundbreaking for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial swimming pool at Third Street and Carroll Avenue.Karl Paige and Annette Young Smith, retired residents, started planting on an urban median strip in 2002, and were quickly joined by neighbors to complete what is now a 650-foot by 20-foot focal point for flowers, food, art and community building.[136] In February 2022, the city of San Francisco unveiled an Equitable Development Plan (EDP) "with the goal of preserving the culture and identity of the historic neighborhood" during the construction of the park.[144] In June 2020, San Francisco native, Reese Benton, opened the city's first black-owned woman-led cannabis dispensary, Posh Green Retail Store.[149] During the COVID pandemic in 2020, after calling for a #DontMessWithUSPS Day of Action and nearing the November 2020 elections, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed up at the Bayview Post Office in San Francisco on Williams Street to discuss her new bill funding the USPS and blocking the Trump administration's overhaul of it.[150] Pelosi accompanied with District 10 supervisor, Shamann Walton exclaimed that the Trump administration had been trying to "tamper" with the mail-in ballots by closing several post offices across the country.In addition to facilitating a connection between the neighborhood and the rest of the city, many residents cite the T-Third Street also being a contributing factor to rising property values and housing prices in the area.
Ohlone women painted by Louis Choris , which reads Habitants de Californie
Enlisted men, wounded in battle, on board the USS President Hayes in 1945 at Hunter's Point shipyard
Robert F. Kennedy visited the Bayview in 1967 to discuss poverty with activist Ruth Williams of the Big Five of Bayview .
James Baldwin visited the Bayview to speak with the youth.
Bill Cosby visited Charles R. Drew Elementary in the Bayview during the 2000s, where he scolded the school, families and community alike.
Film director Spike Lee 's film Sucker Free City focused on elements of poverty of the Bayview.
Bayview D10 Supervisor Malia Cohen elected in 2010
Ike and Tina Turner performing in Hamburg, 1972. The couple performed at Club Long Island during their early years on Third Street.
Micheline in 1982
Late tech entrepreneur Leila Janah
Talib Kweli headlines the BayviewLIVE Festival.
Candlestick Park served as an attraction in the Bayview from 1956 to 2013.
Earl Street along Hunter's Point fence
The McDonalds on the Third Street corridor located on Wallace street
The Evans Street post office, one of the largest post offices in San Francisco
The T Third Street line runs through the Bayview.
The 15 Bayview "Express" line that runs from the Bayview to downtown San Francisco
Thomas C. Fleming , the Sun-Reporter ' s greatest editor and one of the most influential African American journalists on the West Coast in the 20th century
Bayview native Donald Strickland
Martin Luther McCoy , guitarist and musician , is also a Bayview native.
Marcus Orelias, recording artist, entrepreneur and Bayview native
Sophie Maxwell , former District 10 supervisor
Actress Terri J. Vaughn
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